<p>Do you speak two languages with equal ease? You are likely to have a split personality, according to a research.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Researchers say that many speakers possess entirely different personalities in each of the languages they speak.<br /><br />"Rather than ask whether speakers of different languages have different minds, we ask 'can two different minds exist within one person?' " Daily Mail quoted psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos from Lancaster University as saying.<br /><br />The extent to which language affects this process has been the focus of a long-standing debate - do different languages cause their speakers to behave differently?<br />Athanasopoulos and colleagues were interested in a particular difference in how English and German speakers treat events.<br /><br />They showed that fluent German-English bilinguals categorise motion events according to the grammatical constraints of the language in which they operate.<br /><br />English has a grammar toolkit for situating actions in time while German does not have this feature.<br /><br />As a result, German speakers tend to specify the beginnings, middles, and ends of events, but English speakers often leave out the endpoints and focus in on the action.<br /><br />For example, German speakers might say, 'a man leaves the house and walks to the store', whereas an English speaker would just say, 'a man is walking'.<br /><br />This linguistic difference seems to influence how speakers of the two languages view events, according to the research.<br /><br />"... as predicted from cross-linguistic differences in motion encoding, participants functioning in a German testing context prefer to match events on the basis of motion completion to a greater extent than participants in an English context."<br /><br />Scientists have also found that regularly speaking in a second language makes you literally see the world in a different way.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Do you speak two languages with equal ease? You are likely to have a split personality, according to a research.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Researchers say that many speakers possess entirely different personalities in each of the languages they speak.<br /><br />"Rather than ask whether speakers of different languages have different minds, we ask 'can two different minds exist within one person?' " Daily Mail quoted psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos from Lancaster University as saying.<br /><br />The extent to which language affects this process has been the focus of a long-standing debate - do different languages cause their speakers to behave differently?<br />Athanasopoulos and colleagues were interested in a particular difference in how English and German speakers treat events.<br /><br />They showed that fluent German-English bilinguals categorise motion events according to the grammatical constraints of the language in which they operate.<br /><br />English has a grammar toolkit for situating actions in time while German does not have this feature.<br /><br />As a result, German speakers tend to specify the beginnings, middles, and ends of events, but English speakers often leave out the endpoints and focus in on the action.<br /><br />For example, German speakers might say, 'a man leaves the house and walks to the store', whereas an English speaker would just say, 'a man is walking'.<br /><br />This linguistic difference seems to influence how speakers of the two languages view events, according to the research.<br /><br />"... as predicted from cross-linguistic differences in motion encoding, participants functioning in a German testing context prefer to match events on the basis of motion completion to a greater extent than participants in an English context."<br /><br />Scientists have also found that regularly speaking in a second language makes you literally see the world in a different way.<br /><br /></p>