Jeffrey Kluger Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sound, Different, Language

• The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Brain, Mind, Looks

  "Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. April 23, 2013.

• There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, May, Language

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