Out of the Mouths of Babes

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: 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.

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