纪录片《为何讲话》 第4期：记录成长（在线收听）

The wonder of language may not yet be fully understood.

也许人们尚未完全领会语言的奇妙之处

But how we start to talk is now being observed

不过现在 我们开始讲话的过程

minute by minute for the first time.

首次被分分秒秒地观测着

Cognitive scientist Deb Roy

认知科学家戴布·罗伊

realised that to discover how a child learns to speak...

意识到要研究孩子习得讲话的过程

He'd have to be able to see and hear them 24 hours a day.

就需要一天二十四小时监视他们

His solution was to take the extraordinary step

他的解决办法不同寻常

of turning his own home into a language laboratory,

他把自己的家变成了语言实验室

and his guinea pig was his own son.

实验对象则是他自己的儿子

My wife and I were expecting our first child

我和妻子一直在期待第一个孩子降生

and we had many conversations around, you know, would this be possible,

我们经常讨论这种方法的可行性

could we set up our home as an observation space

能否把自己的家作为观测站

and actually capture this kind of rich longitudinal record

从而获得我们孩子从出生那一刻起的

of our own child's development from birth?

长期丰富的成长记录

And that's what we set out to do.

那就是我们正做的事