The Bilingual Brain Quotes

“The next time you see a baby, remember that there is a powerful statistical computer in front of you”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“The truth is that bilingual babies are like machines.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“The study of how injuries in different areas of the brain result in different verbal behaviour patterns has been fundamental to relating cognitive functional models of language, informed by linguistics and cognitive psychology, with neural correlates.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“Knowing another language is like having a second soul.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“[...] when faced with a new language, the bilingual has to learn to juggle with three balls, already knowing how to do so with two, while the monolingual has to learn from the beginning.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“We are all talking heads.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

“One of the primary jobs for a baby during the first months of learning is to build what we call a sound inventory of the language to which he or she is exposed.”
― Albert Costa, The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language