- Experimental
- Field Recording
- Spoken Word
- Informative
- Playful
- Strange
Language acquisition in early childhood is one of the great linguistic mysteries. How do babies learn their commmunity's languages ust by listening? Considering the struggles many adults face in language learning, even with sepcific language educational resources, how do babies learn so quickly? Are babies born with a Language Acquisition Device (as chomsky calls it) which disappears after early childhood or is language transmitted to each generation purely by example?
This show listens in to the various stages of language acquistion, various forms of baby commuication, infant directed speech, the anthopology of childhood games, songs composed by young children and some truly weird music that features babies crying, cooing and giggling.
Inspired by the recent birth of Urszula Polska-Gray and featuring a set of songs composed by my now adult son Blake Tholen-Gray when he was four, this show is dedicated to mine kids and all kids, they deserve safety and liberty, without exception.
The Weirding Module with Nathan Gray a show that listens in to language and the voice in contemporary art and experimental music.
Playlist
Morning Window - Magical Power MakoUrszula Wendy Polska-Gray - Nathan Gray
Introduction - Learning to Talk: A Study in Sound of Infant Speech Development (VA)
Nancy Grows Up - Tony Schwartz
Stages of Language Acquisition - Evan Ashworth
Autotune baby crying (Original) - Eushoneehhhhh
Baako - Champion DJ
Noam Chomsky on Language Acquisition - BBC Radio 4
Theories of Language Acquisition - Ben Ambridge
How Babies Learn Language A Talk - Jenny Safran
Inuterotest - Black Atom Productions
Baby's Heart Beat - Plastic Ono Band
Language Acquisition - A Crash Course in Linguistics
Immersion Profunde - Michael Redolfi
ABBAB - BAB (Shock City Shockers Vol.1)
7EYE7 - SKYEYE (Shock City Shockers Vol.1)
Stages of Language Acquisition - Evan Ashworth
Baby babbling first time at 8 months old - RandomWander B.
EYE Love Minga - EYE
Language Acquisition - A Crash Course in Linguistics
The Linguistic Genius of Babies - Patricia Kuhl
Modeling Child Directed Speech - Reach Out and Read
Language Acquisition - A Crash Course in Linguistics
Done - Voice Actor
Stages of Language Acquisition - Evan Ashworth
Beginning to Talk - Learning to Talk: A Study in Sound of Infant Speech Development (VA)
Dur dur d'être bébé - Jordy
Parades Part One, Voice of a young Girl - Tony Schwartz
I Had Me a Cat - Babe Cadwell
Nia Nah - Ashley Paul
Caresse Song - Psychic TV
Chanson - Pascal Comelade
Morning Light - Trumpet Name
Rollerghoster - Trumpet Name
Skaters are Always Today - Trumpet Name
Where does Satan Live? - Trumpet Name
Le Petit Chevalier - Nico
Oh Kesario Hazari Gul Ro Phool - Latcho Drom Soundtrack
African Singer plays the water bottle - Tik Tok
Aboriginal Children: Traditional Song - John Peel's archive things: unusual recordings from the BBC Archives
Mi Khamokhah (Who is Like You, O God)? - Abayudaya (Music From the Jewish People of Uganda)
En Kovac Konja Kuje (Blacksmith Forging a Horse, and other children's songs) - Child from Dobrepolje
There are Hundreds of These - Singing In The Streets: Scottish Children's Songs
Children's Singing Game Wandsworth - London Sound Survey
Ring Games - Tony Schwartz (1,2,3 and a Zing, Zing, Zing)
Sonumonu - Dahvari Project
Song for Two Children - Eligah Mangitak, Qaunnaq Mikigak and Qabaroak Qatsiya (JVC Sound Worlds)
Balibo sasasa, Children's round dance - Aka Pygmys
Nzenzenze - Children's game - Aka Pygmys
Description of Game - Tony Schwartz (Nueva York: A Tape Documentary of Puerto Rican New Yorkers)
Children's Ring Game - Tony Schwartz (Nueva York: A Tape Documentary of Puerto Rican New Yorkers)
I Must See (Amasee) - Children in Brown's Chapel School, Livingston, Alabama (Music for Children, Music by Children)
Little Red Riding Hood - Tony Schwartz (Nueva York: A Tape Documentary of Puerto Rican New Yorkers)
You're Stepping on My Shadow - Tony Schwartz
Warum ist die Banane krumm? - Wolf Biermann
Mein Vater war ein Wandersman - Wolf Biermann
Bapsi - Early Childhood Radio Recordings Rare + Unreleased (1974-1979) - Björk
Joga (Björk cover) - PS22 Chorus
God Only Knows (Beachboys cover) - Langley Schools Project
I Love My Rooster - Babe Cadwell