Fashion Quote by Michael Erard

Those who become hyperpolyglots are those who meet two criteria. One, they are exposed to language material. Two, they undertake learning languages as a…

— Michael Erard

“One difference is that individuals living in multilingual communities seem to settle on an optimal cognitive load. The hyperpolyglot possesses a similar patchwork of…

— Michael Erard

“Why are there more male hyperpolyglots? One answer is that speaking a lot of languages is a geek macho thing (...) It seemed that…

— Michael Erard

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language…

— Jeffrey Kluger

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to…

— Martin Rees

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore…

— Donald Davidson

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

Today, there are over 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world. They may sound different, but in every case, they're drawing on the same regions…

— David Pogue

“Turing’s idea of designing a program that acquires most of its content by learning, rather than having it pre-programmed at the outset, can apply…

— Nick Bostrom