Why do we talk?

Why do we talk? How do we learn to speak? Those are very interesting question, that I have never ask before, but now they have attracted my attention. Below is a video that will explain better this topic; also I have answer some question related to this interesting topic. Enjoy!

QUESTIONS.


1. Which is the 'trick' (process) that enables us to communicate something to others? 
The ´trick´that enables us to communicate, is to transfer what we are thinking (thoughts) by a sequence of sounds that both people can understand.


2. Do animals talk? If not, What do they do to communicate? 
Animals don´t talk, they communicate by making some sounds or gestures that they understand. Animals communication, it´s completely different from our language, including that scientists are not sure that animals understand all what they try to communicate each other.


3. What do we express when we talk? 
When we talk, we express all what happens in our mind, as ideas, emotions, information we must tell to somebody, etc.


4. What did Dr Deb Roy try to achieve in his house?
Dr. Deb Roy try to study how language develops in children. He used his son for the experiment, recording all the movements of the child and all the words that he said.


5. Which are the earliest stages in language for a child? 
First of all, children start babbling. Later thet start saying the basic words that many children learn first: "dad" and "mom". Then they start joining two words, that are almost always  related to food or their toys. And finally they join more words, and made more complex sentences.


6. What external and internal factors made the data recollected in the experiment into something they could use? 
All the data recollected in this experiment is very useful, but the information must be analyzed, as every experiment, and then get some conclusions about how the environment affect the childern develops.


 7. How did the parents' speech change from their son's first word until he could utter more complex structures? 
When children start saying some words, parents try to help them, in other words, they simplify their language, and over time passes, that unconscious help from parents help a lot to start more easily creating complex sentences.


8.What does Dr Deb Roy compare the "blossoming" of a speech form? 
It was about, how does the child learn to say water, a very difficult word at the beginning. First the child start making some strange sound (GA-GA). Later he began to approach to the pronunciation of the word, (wa-da). Finally the child pronounce the word correctly.