Five years ago, when our son was born, we wanted to keep notes
on his first bilingual, later trilingual, language acquisition.
One idea was to do audio records, but the amount of data would
have proven quickly to be unmanageable as well as life (read:
work) getting into the way. In the end, we kept written notes
about the first correct utterance of a word in a few dozen
cases. Tonight, I came across at a TED talk by Deb Roy: The
birth of a word. His presentation as well as the implementation
and findings are nothing short of amazing. Project Implicit® –
taken from the introduction: It is well known that people don’t
always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people
don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences
is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a
method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences
much more convincingly than has been possible with previous
methods. [...] Available in 33 languages – try it. An article at
Mashable “In the Future,