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...inventing words and bilinguality. Wednesday Language

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-bilingual-babies-language.html Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers should know that infants growing up bilingual have the learning capacities to make sense of the complexities of two languages just by listening. In a new study, an international team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, report that bilingual infants as young as 20 months of age efficiently and accurately process two languages....(at link) 2017    comment on the article.:..though, it may be a bit more involved regarding network development and loudness. One needs, really, a much better definition of language as a concept, how it emerges, what they are.  -  Sigh. It's a period where I can't seem to stop inventing words in two languages. Awhile back the word 'coniglioni', a combination of 'rabbit' (coniglio) and the local equivalent of ass (coglioni. Which would mean testicle but...) came from my mo...

Jean-Luc Godard. (Musica Domenica)

Tom Wesselman. Sunday Music +

The Emergent Conspiracy of Culture. Sunday Music +

Fred Astaire. Musica Domenica/Sunday Music

The Musical Brain: Trading 4's: Sunday Music

Una Colonna Sonora “Commovente” Aiuta a Ricordare i Volti. Sunday Music/Musica Domenica

Musical friends and foes: The social cognition of affiliation and control in improvised interactions. Sunday Music

3-iron. Sunday Music (Musica Domenica)

Could Your Favorite Stories Permanently Change Your Brain? Wednesday Narratives

Musical Scales May Have Developed to Accommodate Vocal Limitations. Sunday Music

Why Pygmies Aren’t Scared By The ‘Psycho’ Theme – they sing to pass through the tears. Sunday Music.

Fossimo Parole/As If We Were Words. Junglebook Swingdance. (Part I) Sunday Music

A Detached Sense of Self Associated with Altered Neural Responses to Mirror Touch. Wednesday Narratives