By Diana Slattery, Allyson Grey
Are language and attention co-evolving? Can psychedelic adventure solid mild in this subject? within the Western international, we stand on the sunrise of the psychedelic age with advances in neuroscience; a proliferation of latest psychoactive components, either criminal and unlawful; the anthropology of ayahuasca use; and new discoveries in ethnobotany. From medical papers to the person journey experiences at the Vaults of Erowid and the lifestyles paintings of Terence McKenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, and Stanislav Grof, we're converging on new wisdom of the brain and the way to shift its functioning for healing, non secular, problem-solving, creative and/or leisure reasons. In our tradition, pychonautics, the practices of people and small teams utilizing ideas reminiscent of meditation, shamanic ritual, ecstatic dance and elements comparable to LSD and psilocybin for private exploration, is a box of motion and proposal in its infancy. using psychonautic perform as a website of analysis and a mode of information creation is significant to this paintings, the 1st in-depth ebook targeting psychedelics, cognizance, and language.
Xenolinguistics records the author's eleven-year event of psychonautic exploration and scholarly examine; her unique purpose was once to appreciate a symbolic language procedure, waft, she bought in an altered kingdom of attention. What begun as a deeply own seek, ended in the invention of others, dubbed xenolinguists, with their very own distinct linguistic gadgets and ideas approximately language from the psychedelic sphere. the hunt accelerated, sifting via fields of information corresponding to anthropology and neurophenomenology to construct maps and types to contextualize those studies. The e-book provides a set of those linguistic artifacts, from glossolalia to alien scripts, washed ashore like messages in bottles, signs from Psyche and the alien Others who populate her hyperdimensional landscapes.
With a complete bankruptcy devoted to Terence and Dennis McKenna and sections devoted to quite a few different xenolinguists, this booklet will attract these attracted to language/linguistics and some great benefits of psychedelic self-exploration, and to readers of technological know-how fiction.
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1. Some are, as expected, quite close to the target word forms (those in bold face), while others are less accurate. All of the English children produce over half of their early words relatively accurately; Helena, who makes the latest start, produces all of her first words as good matches. In the case of the other British children the less accurate forms generally involve final consonant omission (as in Jude’s cat, Ian’s bang, catch and Ali’s word learning 27 gone). Jude unusually targets two longer words, omitting the medial syllable in Barnaby and the initial trochee in caterpillar.
This appears to be a characteristic of early words in a language with a great many simple reduplicated words in infant-directed speech. In contrast, no one pattern dominates the output for any of the British children. Note that in a comparison of first word forms in English, French and Welsh in relation to the early acquisition of rhythm, Vihman et al. (2006) found that the disyllabic words most often used by five children acquiring French were all characterized, like the Italian data here, by simple CVCV structures (with harmonizing consonants in maman ‘mama’, papa, poupée ‘doll’, but not chapeau ‘hat’) while each of the (American) English children’s oftenused disyllabic words that included a diphthong, coda, syllabic consonant, C1VC2V sequence, or more than one of these sources of difficulty (apple, baby, Big Bird, button).
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