Babel No More (54 page)

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,
49

Sardinian language,
38

Saudi-Arabia,
85
n

Sauerwein, Georg,
73
–74,
172

schizophrenia,
214

Schrijfwijzer
“Style Guide” (Renkema),
207

Schumann, John,
159
–60,
237
–38

science,
11
,
14

empirical,
41

language,
13
,
16

medical,
28

neurological,
15
,
16
,
41
,
156
–62,
170
–75

polyglottery as,
92

Scoresby-Jackson, Robert,
172

Seashore, Carl,
163

Seashore Tests of Musical Ability,
163

self-confidence,
34
,
46
,
131

Semitic language family,
44

sentences,
18

bilingual,
51

construction of,
11
,
22
,
56
,
82
,
83
,
96
,
99
,
142

“dummy subject,”
181
n

September
11th, 2001 terrorist attacks,
71

Serbian language,
43

Shakespeare, William,
194

Sharma, Arpan,
15

Shaw, George Bernard,
194
–95

Shogun,
80

Sicily,
3

Siddhartha,
194
–95,
201

Sidis, William James,
79
,
282

sign language,
45
,
279

Signs of the Savant, The: Language Against the Odds
(Smith and Tsimpli),
97
–99,
283

Sillmann, Peter,
170
–71

Simon, Paul,
72

Sindhi language,
47
n

Singapore,
131
,
208

Singer, Judy,
214

Sinhalese language,
42

Sino-Tibetan languages,
44
n,
112

Skehan, Peter,
164
,
227
,
284
,
287

Skype,
109

slavery,
3

Slavic languages,
44
,
75
,
153
,
218
,
252

East Slavic subgroup of,
17

sleep,
143

dreaming in,
48
–49

rapid eye movement (REM),
48
,
280

Smith, Neil,
94
–99

Somali language,
47
n

Sorenson, Arthur,
189
–90,
289

sound:

mimicking of,
63
,
71
,
160

perception
of,
33

production of,
33
,
163

South America,
31

Southern California, University of,
101

Soviet Union,
129
,
154
–55,
251

Spain,
35

Spanish language,
4
,
7
,
10
,
14
,
30
,
35
,
43
,
45
,
49
–50,
55
,
82
,
88
,
118
,
122
,
192

Italian relation to,
18

study of,
9
,
19
–20,
102
,
134

speech:

defective,
95

loss of coherence in,
161

mimicking sounds of,
63
,
71
,
160

monitoring of,
24

organs of,
10
,
11
,
77

phonetic sounds of,
46

truthful,
45
,
279

Spivak, Dimitri,
227

Sprachbund,
195
–97,
208

Sprachegefühl,
263
–64

Sproat, Richard,
234
–35

Sri,
188
–89,
192
–94,
199
,
204

Srinivasaraju, Sugata,
200
,
201
,
290

stammering,
5

Stanford University,
79

Starchevsky, A. V.,
16
–17,
267
–68

“polyglot college” of,
17

State Department, U.S.,
222
–23,
291

Stieda, Ludwig,
172

Stoessel, Saskia,
224
,
291

Stoner, Winifred Sackville,
79
–80

Stoner, Winifred Sackville, Jr. “Cherie,”
78
–80,
282

street signs,
10

strokes,
74
,
171
,
174

Strunk, William,
207

stuttering,
5
,
166

Sumerian language,
154

superlearners,
see
hyperpolyglots

Suzuki, Kenshi,
88

Suzuki, Tomoko,
87
–88

Svenska Akademien,
208

Swahili language,
9
,
47
n,
133

Swedish language,
10
,
35
,
43
,
60
,
75
,
91
,
109
,
148
,
181

Switzerland,
17
–18

syntax,
21
,
22
,
96
–97,
99

syphilis,
154
,
156

Syriac language,
43
,
75

Syrian language,
4

Tac, Pablo,
267
,
294

Tagalog language,
35
,
268
,
269

Taiwanese language,
20

Tamil language,
75
,
120
,
131
,
188
,
194
,
196
,
198
–200,
202
,
208
,
210
,
290

Tammet, Daniel,
229

Teach Yourself Finnish,
81

television,
106
,
109

languages on,
10

satellite,
8
,
90

Teluga language,
47
n,
188
–89,
191
–94,
196
,
198
–200,
202

tenses,
123

testosterone,
165
,
166

Thai language,
123

Thomas, Michel,
275
–76

Tibetan language,
42
,
149

Time,
78
–79

Toda language,
47
n

Tok Pisin language,
9

Tolis, Peter,
75
–76

tongues,
10

Tongue-Tied American, The: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis
(Simon),
72

“Tonquinese” language,
42

total language system,
52

Tourette’s syndrome,
230

tourism,
84
,
85
,
140

Tower
of Babel,
5
,
12
,
44
,
197

transcranial direct current stimulation (tDECS),
235
–36

translation,
11
,
12
,
30
,
40
,
46
,
47
–48,
53
,
58
–59,
92
,
104