Horizon - Season 46 - Eps 16: Why Do We Talk?
Talking is something that is unique to humans, yet it still remains a mystery. Horizon meets the scientists beginning to unlock the secrets of speech - including a father who is filming every second of his son's 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. Horizon also hears from the godfather of linguistics, Noam Chomsky, the first to suggest that our ability to talk is innate. A unique experiment shows how a new alien language can emerge in just one afternoon, in a bid to understand where language comes from and why it is the way it is.
About Horizon
Title: Horizon
First Air Date: 1964-02-04
Last Air Date: 2024-07-22
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.379/10 (from 33 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 61
Total Episodes: 1169
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
