
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


For the first three years of Justin Davidson's childhood in Chicago, his mom spoke only Spanish to him. Although he never spoke the language as a young child, when Davidson began to learn Spanish in middle school, it came very quickly to him, and over the years, he became bilingual.
Now an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Davidson is part of a research team that has discovered where in the brain bilinguals process and store language-specific sounds and sound sequences. The research project is ongoing.
This is the final episode of a three-part series with Davidson about language in the U.S. Listen to the first two episodes: "A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish" and "A language divided."
Photo courtesy of Justin Davidson.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
By UC Berkeley5
2020 ratings
For the first three years of Justin Davidson's childhood in Chicago, his mom spoke only Spanish to him. Although he never spoke the language as a young child, when Davidson began to learn Spanish in middle school, it came very quickly to him, and over the years, he became bilingual.
Now an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Davidson is part of a research team that has discovered where in the brain bilinguals process and store language-specific sounds and sound sequences. The research project is ongoing.
This is the final episode of a three-part series with Davidson about language in the U.S. Listen to the first two episodes: "A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish" and "A language divided."
Photo courtesy of Justin Davidson.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News (news.berkeley.edu).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

91,029 Listeners

38,551 Listeners

6,854 Listeners

3,368 Listeners

4,100 Listeners

14,679 Listeners

6,305 Listeners

1,070 Listeners

87,966 Listeners

112,937 Listeners

26 Listeners

16,486 Listeners

5,835 Listeners

6,486 Listeners

16,365 Listeners