Linguistics PhD from U. Florida 🐊
Visiting faculty @ Bard College 🌲
Striving to make linguistics and cognitive science fun and accessible 🎉🥳
Continuing EEG fun facts, there are “neural signatures” (or, basically, brain waves that happen at different times and that are differently shaped) that suggest that we process oddities with meaning (semantics) differently than we process oddities with grammar (syntax). Pretty cool!
Continuing EEG fun facts, there are “neural signatures” (or, basically, brain waves that happen at different times and that are differently shaped) that suggest that we process oddities with meaning (semantics) differently than we process oddities with grammar (syntax). Pretty cool!
Linguists who study the brain are called psycholinguists and neurolinguists. Psycho- and neurolinguists can use a technique that measures brain waves to study how your brain responds to language. This is called electroencephalography, or EEG. (1/3 🧵)
Linguists who study the brain are called psycholinguists and neurolinguists. Psycho- and neurolinguists can use a technique that measures brain waves to study how your brain responds to language. This is called electroencephalography, or EEG. (1/3 🧵)
When you first hear a word begin to be a spoken, your brain has lots of other words activated at the same time, based on the commonalities in sound between all the words (1/2 🧵)
When you first hear a word begin to be a spoken, your brain has lots of other words activated at the same time, based on the commonalities in sound between all the words (1/2 🧵)
Did you know that babies can distinguish sounds in all languages until about 6 months to 1 year of age? Then, they begin to show preference towards their native language.
Did you know that babies can distinguish sounds in all languages until about 6 months to 1 year of age? Then, they begin to show preference towards their native language.
Day 6 fun fact is that we develop sensitivity to sound even before we’re born — we begin to develop sensitivity to rhythm (what linguists call “prosodic patterns”) in utero!
Day 6 fun fact is that we develop sensitivity to sound even before we’re born — we begin to develop sensitivity to rhythm (what linguists call “prosodic patterns”) in utero!
Keeping on with the theme of the past few days, while we’re processing language, we’re also generating predictions about what comes next! (1/3 🧵)
Keeping on with the theme of the past few days, while we’re processing language, we’re also generating predictions about what comes next! (1/3 🧵)
Continuing on in the theme of yesterday’s fun fact, when we process language, we process it “incrementally” ! Take the sentence “I like dancing.” (1/2 🧵)
Continuing on in the theme of yesterday’s fun fact, when we process language, we process it “incrementally” ! Take the sentence “I like dancing.” (1/2 🧵)
Today’s fun fact is that we process language in a millisecond-by-millsecond fashion! I’m including a video to illustrate JUST how fast that is — it took me 23 milliseconds just to start and stop my stopwatch!
Today’s fun fact is that we process language in a millisecond-by-millsecond fashion! I’m including a video to illustrate JUST how fast that is — it took me 23 milliseconds just to start and stop my stopwatch!
Did you know that you can technically “lose” or forget parts of your first language? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that. For example, if you spend a lot of time speaking your second language, you might become more proficient in your second language than your first! (1/3 🧵)
Did you know that you can technically “lose” or forget parts of your first language? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that. For example, if you spend a lot of time speaking your second language, you might become more proficient in your second language than your first! (1/3 🧵)
Today’s fun fact… (1/2 🧵)
Today’s fun fact… (1/2 🧵)
In short, when we speak multiple languages, they’re all “active” at the same time. Our brain performs a constant “juggling act” when we speak multiple languages!
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In short, when we speak multiple languages, they’re all “active” at the same time. Our brain performs a constant “juggling act” when we speak multiple languages!
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