films on language acqusition

[Philip M Prinz]

Hello,

Many thanks for your suggestion.

Philip Prinz
On Dec 28, 2003, at 9:08 PM, Lynn Santelmann wrote:

> One nice newer film is called: The Secret Life of the Brain. Episode 2
> focuses on language and the child's brain, and talks a bit about
> children's language delay/disorder, lateralization and
> hemispherectomies. There might be other things, it's been about a year
> since I've shown it. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode2/index.html
>
> I also like several episodes from Scientific American Frontiers:
> http://www.pbs.org/saf/previous.htm
> Growing up Different, from 2001; it has segments on children with
> William Syndrome, Autism, and a Cochlear Implant:
> http://www.pbs.org/saf/1205/index.html
> There's also a program from this series that has a segment showing a
> man with a split brain. I show this often in psycholinguistics.
>
> All of these videos are available from PBS for about $25. Some of the
> Scientific American ones are also available online if you've got
> access to a reliable internet connection on which to show it.
>
> Lynn
>
>
> At 10:10 AM 12/27/2003 -0800, Philip M Prinz wrote:
>
>
>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I will be teaching an upper division undergraduate course on
>>> "language acquisition in children" spring semester 2004. Can anyone
>>> recommend recent films on language acquisition/development? Any
>>> information on the films and ordering information would  be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Philip Prinz
>>> pm at sfsu.edu
>>
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