Sunday, May 31, 2009

People may be able to taste words


Filed under: Language and the brain

We are all capable of “hearing” shapes and sizes and perhaps even “tasting” sounds, according to researchers.

Full article: BBC News


See also:

>  Tribal language has no words for colours
>  The brave new world of computational neurolinguistics
>  People unconsciously use ‘verbal gestures’ when they speak
>  Dictionary accepts a few good words
>  How new words become part of a language

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