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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Bilingualism
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:41:35 GMT
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In the bilingual brain-mind, an array of "deep concepts" contains
conceptual knowledge fundamentally separate from human languages:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\                                   /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\          semantic  ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\  memory  / syntax \   |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition |          \________/<--|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |  flush-vector|  spiral|    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __|___        ___V___ loop|   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /deep  \<-----/lexical\<---|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/concepts\--->/concepts \---|->\ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \________/    \_________/   |   \_______/   |

The indivisible array of deep concepts drives multiple structures
of Chomskyan syntax, each governing part-of-speech lexical arrays
for a particular language, so that the bilingual person is secure
in the feeling of thinking or speaking "in" a particular language
and only the vocabulary of the language being used comes to mind:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |     |flush-vector     |    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __|__  / \  _______       |   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /     \/   \/ Verbs \------|->/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/ Nouns \    \_______/      |  \ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \_______/-------------------|-->\_______/   |
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http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ original text-only Mentifex site.
http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/science.html five English texts.
