Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago

To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

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To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days ago

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MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and Dothraki on “Game of Thrones.”

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@tonytins ¿Are natural and artificial languages processed in the brain differently from programming languages?

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