Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA10479 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:31:41 GMT Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:36:28 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying Message-ID: <20011125113628.B11467@ii01.org> References: <F131Y61LEdyt3cew8k60001b97a@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <F131Y61LEdyt3cew8k60001b97a@hotmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:50:13PM -0500, Scott Chase wrote:
>
> >> I wouldn't say one's native language is imitated so much as learned.
> >
> >Don't you think imitation plays a large part in such learning?
> >
> >
> I'm not sure about native language, but learning second languages can be a
> chore.
Is that relevant?
> One could imitate the sounds of the words one hears when trying to learn
> pronunciation of words as one learns a second language.
"Could"? It's absolutely essential, isn't it?
> Rolling r's as in
> Spanish or some of the German word pronunciations might be a little awkward.
I don't the relevance of difficulty. Or, as I said to Wade, that it needs
to be right first time to be considered imitation.
-- Robin Faichney "It is tempting to suppose that some concept of information could serve eventually to unify mind, matter, and meaning in a single theory," say Daniel Dennett and John Haugeland. The theory is here: http://www.ii01.org/=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Nov 25 2001 - 13:37:34 GMT