Words R Us

"While we know abstractly that we are hearing a sequence of arbitrary sounds, it feels as if thoughts are simply pouring into our minds... Learning to understand a language is like cracking a deeply encrypted code." "Babies are born knowing a great deal about language. They also have powerful learning procedures that allow them to add to that knowledge and, in particular, to learn all the details and peculiarities of the language of their own community."

suggests that different languages have different rhythms, and that those rhythms are also reflected in the music of that culture

Perhaps this has to do with the babies crying study also? "...not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during their foetal life."

"...consensus is emerging that FOXP2 probably plays a more fundamental role in the brain. Its presence in the basal ganglia and cerebellums of different animals provides a clue as to what that role might be. Both regions help to produce precise sequences of muscle movements. Not only that, they are also able to integrate information coming in from the senses with motor commands sent from other parts of the brain."

"www.uwlax.edu/urc/JUR-online/PDF/2006/heaton.paris.pdf"

parody of linguists