Re: Futurese: Colours

>I think you've misunderstood this. Unless I've been totally misinformed
by a
>number of sources, it's our brains, not our ears, that become sensitized
to
>phonetic differences relevant to our native language, and desnsitized to
>other ones.
Of course! I used "eyes" the same I used "ears".
Unless you have some disfunction in them, they can
perceive all colour differences and all sounds.
But anything about language is a matter of neuronal
processes, so I think it would have been clear that
when I talked about "eyes" and "ears" I was talking
about our _mental_ "eyes" and "ears".


>I also very much doubt that language and culture influences the
sensitivity
>of our retinas in any significant ways. What it may to to the
>vision-processing parts of our brains, I won't speculate about.
It's not the sensitivity of our retinas, as it
isn't the sensitivity of our timpani, that
language affects. It's the neuronal conections
that develop (or fade away) when you learn the
language that are affected. That's why we can
in fact adapt your brain to a new phonology or
a new colour system, since our brain is
constantly learning (and forgetting), and thus
the neuronal conections do change over the time.
Although, of course, learning is not as easy at
the late stages of one's life as it was at the
early ones.

Cheers,
Javier