344 chapter 21Individual Differences in Foreign Sound Perception: Perceptual or Linguistic Difficulties?

This talk is going to deal with variation in languages, a subject that we have heard mentioned quite often at this conference. As we know, the problem of why there are so many different languages on Earth has been solved. Genesis 11 gives us the answer with the story of the Tower of Babel – the prol...

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Published inOf Minds and Language
Main Author Sebastián-Gallés, Núria
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 29.01.2009
Subjects
Neuroscience
L2 acquisition 283
activity 187
Spanish-Catalan bilinguals
Heschl gyrus
Jacqueline
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ISBN0199544662
9780199544660
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199544660.003.0025

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Summary:This talk is going to deal with variation in languages, a subject that we have heard mentioned quite often at this conference. As we know, the problem of why there are so many different languages on Earth has been solved. Genesis 11 gives us the answer with the story of the Tower of Babel – the proliferation of languages was a punishment from God. So the issue that I want to talk about here is not how all these languages came into being, but about another type of variation: why it is that when we try to learn a second language, some people are very good at it, while the rest of us are not.
ISBN:0199544662
9780199544660
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199544660.003.0025