University of Melbourne graduate student Sara Ciesielski explains how children growing up in the Sherpa culture learn a lot more than words from their elders.

Research like Sara’s is important because it shows that there is more than one way to raise a child to speak a language and that there are so many other factors as well.

Sara was one of the winners of the PhD Comics two minute thesis competition, which is why her discussion of her research has been so wonderfully animated by Jorge Cham.


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