The Fis Phenomenon
Berke and Brown talked to a child who called his inflatable fish 'fis'. The child got frustrated whenever an adult also called it a 'fis' and then protested, saying it was a 'fis'. They were only satisfied when the adult said 'fish'. This showed that children's understanding of how words should be pronounced preceded their actual pronunciation.
Deb Roy
Deb Roy recorded 90,000 hours of video footage around his house with hidden cameras of his son growing up. There were 140,000 hours of audio and 200 TB of data recorded, all in a natural environment so his child would behave as he would in every-day situations as he was unaware that he was being observed. A motion-analysis was created, developing space/time worms tracing where the boy moved around the house and developed his language from. From this footage, teams were able to go over 7 million word scripts of language development of the child over 3 years.
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