<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/29/berkeley-voices-legitimizing-us-spanish" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish</a>" and <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/05/berkeley-voices-a-language-divided" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"A language divided."</a></p><p>Photo courtesy of Justin Davidson.</p><p><a href="https://app.sessions.blue/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Music by Blue Dot Sessions.</a></p><p><a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/16/berkeley-voices-language-in-the-brain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the episode and read the transcript on <em>Berkeley News</em></a><em> </em>(news.berkeley.edu).</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
