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World Service,03 Oct 1994,27 mins

Learning to Speak

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How do children learn to speak, and why do some learn more slowly that others? Also, manipulating atoms using a scanning and tunnelling microscope and Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann on the link between the laws of physics and the complexity of the natural world. Presented by Dee Palmer.

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