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Re:A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering ci... by rcxdude on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:15PM (#7611371)
I don't think 'single-threaded' is a good model. multilingual people often code-switch[1] during conversation (when talking to other multilingual people who understand the same languages).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

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Re:A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering ci... by ChuckMcM on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:50PM (#7611526)
They have decoupled the language center from specific sounds associated with language.

Our neighbor's raised their kids tri-lingual and it was amazing to watch in action. Especially the pipeline stalls when a language concept had a word in one language but not another, (the foreign word would be injected).

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