16mm Filmography
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Out of the Mouths of Babes

Provides an overview of the chronological development of language in children from infancy to age six, concentrating on the research of Peter and Jill deVilliers from Harvard University. Shows how children seem to learn a language on their own, noting the gradual progression from random babbling, to jargon and one-word sentences, to the use of complicated structures and linguistic concepts, as children extract the rules of grammar from language they hear around them. Demonstrates the carefully structured games and tests devised by the deVilliers for their research.

More in Nature of Things Series

  1. Left Brain, Right Brain, Part 1: Left Brain
  2. Left Brain, Right Brain, Part 2: Right Brain
  3. Grouse Country 1972
  4. Newborn 1972
  5. Out of the Mouths of Babes 1973
  6. Out Of The Mouths Of Babes 1978
  7. The Differences Are Inherited 1978
  8. The Evolution Of Flight 1978
  9. The First Inch 1978
  10. Water's Edge, The, Pt 1 - The Unseen World 1978
  11. Water's Edge, The, Pt 2 - The Silent Explosion 1978
  12. Puffins, Predators And Pirates 1979
  13. Tipping the Scales 1982

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record

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