Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The interviewee mentioned this book in relation to Schmerck's analogy of language acquisition being similar to learning to dance; she considered it a good analogy that helped explain language acquisition.
One of them went to the mother of Eve in which he looked at everything. The Eve, about that Adam and Eve and Sarah, those kids were going to start. He looked at the mother of Eve. But he found that, y...
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Episode: [Unedited] Jean Berko Gleason with Krista Tippett
The interviewee mentioned this book in relation to Schmerck's analogy of language acquisition being similar to learning to dance; she considered it a good analogy that helped explain language acquisition.
One of them went to the mother of Eve in which he looked at everything. The Eve, about that Adam and Eve and Sarah, those kids were going to start. He looked at the mother of Eve. But he found that, you know, she said hundreds of thousands of simple phrases to her kid.
But he points out that, that, that language is not the only thing that is universal in our species, that it essentially, every society we know there's music and dance.