And The Winner Is…January 27, 2010 - In So Many Words
Steve Goff is one of more than 100,000 people in Canada who have aphasia. And yet the general public knows very little or nothing about it. Steve wants to change this. And although his words are broken, his message is clear. This week’s podcast features award-winning documentary "In So Many Words." It was produced for The Sunday Edition by Teresa Goff, Steve’s daughter.
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Tagged with cbc documentary aphasia language communication disability cognition linguistics
Brain Science Podcast #30 is a discussion of Christine Kenneally’s book, The First Word: The Search for the Origin of Language.This episode concentrates on the emergence of the study of language evolution (evolutionary linguistics) from an area of area of inquiry that was banned in the 19th century to one that is flourishing and benefiting from new evidence from fields as diverse as genetics and studies in animal communication.
Humans evolved a brain with an extraordinary knack for language, but just how and when we began using language is still largely a mystery. Early human communication may have been in sign language or song, and scientists are studying other animals to learn how human language evolved.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129155123
Brain science podcast and interview with Maryanne Wolf - how the brain processes language.
Tagged with linguistics language brain cognition reading development science