Brad Beyenhof wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Wade Curry wrote:
>> > What you seem to be describing is what I've heard called a
>> > "super-monitor" by linguists who study 2nd language acquisition. I
>> > have that ability and it has helped me quite a bit.
>>
>> This "super-monitor" capability -- can you summarize what that is?
>
> I'm not entirely positive what a "super-monitor" is, but since Wade
> used the term in reference to something I described earlier I'll take
> a shot. It's like a real-time debugger in your brain that examines
> thoughts for context and clarity before they're "compiled" into spoken
> language and expressed verbally. Sometimes I do a bit of that
> "compiling" manually, actually composing some or all of the actual
> sentence before it's uttered, but more often than not it's just
> mentally dissecting the thought and delibrerately ordering its various
> parts before engaging my jaw.
> > --
That's the essence of it. It's like a mental "lint" program. It is a rather
nebulous concept that describes how some people are able to monitor and correct
their speech on the fly. It helps me when I am studying new languages, but can
become a hindrance because it can interfere with the discourse. I am often very
careful about what I say and the way I say it, only to find out that I missed
some
pretty obvious clues about how the listener was taking it. Of course, that
defeats
the purpose. On the other hand, it means that I can be comprehensible in a
foreign
language sooner than I would be otherwise.
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