A newborn baby is being filmed for the next three years to understand how he learns to talk.

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the University of Obvious Research

or

the University of Pointless Research

as my dh would say

well maybe not pointless but certainly obvious

sorry but what a waste of time. I'm amazed my the things people research these days. Is this bloke seriously going to spend 3 years doing this??? for what, to tell us what we already know?

what do we already know?

Good concept, but poor experiment because only 1 baby.

A huge amount of research on infant language development has been done by academics on their own first child. They're probably the most overresearched (and uninteresting) group you could think of.