Abstract
The knowledge about the bilingual brain is new. And it has been discovered quite recently in the twenty-first century. The studies on the brain to know about various neurological features identified a distinctive area acting as the bilingual brain. Bilingual brain means the natural neurological changes that happen in the brain when one acquires an ability to process two or more languages simultaneously. All languages find their roots in the language of thought—mentalese that would form distinctive neural circuits for representing each of the I- languages. But when looking at the structure of each language we could find the specifics and rules that govern a language are complex and complicated. So, it must be understood that if a child like Sakura at about 5 years old could speak more than 5 languages effortlessly and naturally, she must have been using some kind of complicated internal neural mechanism in the language faculty of the brain.
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Notes
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Rosenstock-Huessy (1938). See also, http://augnet.org/en/works-of-augustine/writings-of-augustine/2114-on-the-teacher/ Retrieved on: 19/02/2022.
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Essay on Saint Augustine (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved on May/4/2020): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/
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Hernandez and Bates (2006).
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Crinion et al. (2006).
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Paradis (2004).
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Bilingual Kids Have More Economic Brains, Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/1997/07/bilingual-kids-have-more-economic-brains retrieved on 3/July/2021.
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Hirsch et al. (1997).
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Shi et al. (2020).
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Crinion et al. (2006).
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Ibid.
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See the article What is the caudate nucleus and what does it do? Healthline https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/caudate-nucleus#, Retrieved on May 6, 2020.
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Radford (2004).
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Bialystok (2001), p.73
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Ibid., p. 74.
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Ibid., p. 77.
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Ibid., p. 83.
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Hirsch et al. (1997).
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Bialystok (2001).
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Hirsch et al. (1997).
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Bialystok (2001).
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Chomsky (2002).
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Bialystok (2001).
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Ibid., p. 66.
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Ibid., p. 70.
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Chomsky (1980).
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Pinker (1994).
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Ibid., p. 69.
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Trace theory is a theory which posits that moved constituents leave behind a trace in each position out of which they move. See, Radford (1997).
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Ray (2002).
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Kirkpatrick (2004).
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Andrew (2004).
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Bialystok (2001).
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Varghese, M. (2022). The Bilingual Brain. In: English Bilingual Project. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4778-0_8
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