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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...

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

'El secreto de sus ojos'. Sunday Music

Language and Consciousness (Study: Neural Correlates of Subliminal Language Processing.) Wednesday Language

Gabriel Fauré: Romance Sans Paroles, Op.17/3. Sunday Music.

Brad Mehldau. Sunday Music/(Musica Domenica)

Music Lessons Combat Poverty's Effect on the Brain. Sunday Music.

A Touch of Spice (2003) Sunday Music

A drunken Gato Barbieri and his relation to free will. Sunday Music

HiJazz - Bab-ı Esrar. Musica Domenica

Lockwood. And Entropy and Consciousness. Sunday Music

Being bilingual may also bring long-term benefits for mental well being. Wednesday story and language

Poetry is like music to the mind. Weekend Music.