Friday, January 3, 2014

How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World : Shots - Health News : NPR

How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World : Shots - Health News : NPR: "If you want to learn another language and become fluent, you may have to change the way you behave in small but sometimes significant ways, specifically how you sort things into categories and what you notice.

Researchers are starting to study how those changes happen, says Aneta Pavlenko, a professor of applied linguistics at Temple University. She studies bilingualism and is the author of an upcoming book on this work."

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