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Why can some people speak dozens of languages? with Ev Fedorenko, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
Studying Polyglots
In any com of ability, or perceptual ability you can think of, there is this extreme where it seems that some small number in the population are especially good at something. Some people seem to have a propense for this, or at least in one way or another, become hyper polyglots. And so we get interested, and maybe we can learn something about how the tiffical system works by also studying this other extreme of our linguistic abilities.
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