One man's resistance is another man's terrorism (and both may be right; the linguistic trouble arises when they are not, and the meaningful terrorism is broadened into a mere term of abuse).And so on, and on.
The fantasy is that learning one activates a latent alter ego, righting a linguistic version of having been switched at birth.
Information to each ear is better represented in the opposite hemisphere via the dominant contralateral auditory pathways, and right-ear linguistic input, therefore, has a stronger connection to the language centres in the left hemisphere.
If this is right, then tacit linguistic conventions cannot get off the ground: if speakers don't know what the standard linguistic practices are, they cannot be expected to conform to those standards.
The production of prosody is well known to be a specialization of the premotor cortex, in particular the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), with emotional prosody more strongly activating the right hemisphere and linguistic prosody more strongly activating the left hemisphere [1], [2].
The Cultural and Educational rights, given in Articles 29 and 30, are measures to protect the rights of cultural, linguistic and religious minorities, by enabling them to conserve their heritage and protecting them against discrimination.
The momentum of linguistic rights during this period was fed in part by the frenzy of decolonisation, the American civil-rights movement, and the end of several dictatorships.
"All their national and linguistic rights have been denied.
In international treaties, too, linguistic rights began to earn a mention.
The Dutch-speaking Flemish residents defend their linguistic rights just as stoutly.
