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Are language and thought interdependent to the extent that only language makes intelligent thought possible?

And what role does learning a foreign language play in the development of the young mind?
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von: Anne-Katrin Clemens
13,99 €
Verlag:	Grin Verlag
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	27.09.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9783656279907
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	17

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Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: English Language in Social and Cultural Context, language: English, abstract: Learning a foreign language does not seem to affect semantic representations in the first language. But does it change cognition in any way? We do know that the brain accommodates a foreign language purely anatomically up to the age of twelve and we know that this heightened flexibility in our neurological pathways allows for more flexible combining of core-knowledge systems, thus giving an advantage in other cognitive areas. What we do not know is if it actually changes our perception of the world.