Fry's Planet Word - 'Babel'
British iTunes Chart Performance

• Release date: 25 Sep 2011
• Chart debut: #59 (05 Oct 2011)
• Highest Position: #30 (09 Oct 2011)
• Most recent chart position: #96 (13 Oct 2011)
• Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 9

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UK TV Episodes chart performance history for Babel

in this first episode stephen seeks to uncover the origins of human language and how and why we are the only species on the planet to have this gift from attempts to teach chimps to speak to the so called singing...

...who have been given the human “language gene” foxp2 stephen uncovers to what extent our brain is uniquely hard wired for language watching how a child acquires language stephen hears from psycholinguist steven pinker how grammar is an innate quality yet still has to be nurtured case studies of feral children like victor of aveyron illustrate how difficult it is to be certain which is more important whilst at the national theatre of the deaf in connecticut he learns why sign language is a true language taking part in a klingon version of hamlet prompts stephen to ask the question why we have created the 6000 plus languages which exist on the planet and with philologist wolgang klein he understands grimms law which shows how over 2000 indo european languages have all come from one source

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