Horizon Season 48 Episode 5
Episode Title: Why Do We Talk?
Genre:
Documentary
Countries:
UK,
Airing Date: November 10, 2009
Runtime:50 mins
IMDb Rating:
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Horizon: Speech is a phenomenon unique to humans yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets a father who is filming every second of his sons first three years in order to discover how we learn to talk the autistic savant who can speak more than 20 languages and the first scientist to identify a gene that makes speech possible. There is also a look at the theories of the godfather of linguistics Noam Chomsky and a unique experiment showing how a new language can emerge in just one afternoon.