Bilingual Brain Explored

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 28, 2002 @09:32AM from the but-only-from-the-outside dept.

Aurorya writes: "Nature.com posts this article about the this brain activities in bilingual versus monolingual people. The article states that when a bilingual person reads a list of words with one language in mind, the words are "heard" in the brain, and those words of another understood language or jibberish are ignored in the same way; the brain makes no effort to recall the meaning of the word in the other language. This is in contrast to monoligual folks, who search for meaning immediately."

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Very cunning linguists! by Snafoo · 2002-02-28 14:14 · Score: 3, Funny

...but have they managed to explain why French sounds sexy to Americans, whilst Canadians find Spanish more erotic, and both can think of naught but canned pasta in tomato sauce when they hear Italian?

Romance languages: Especially meaningful to anglos that don't speak them.(tm)

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