Babel No More (52 page)

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
159

Mair, Victor,
149

Malayalam language,
196

Malay language,
42
,
88
,
131

Maltese language,
4
,
31
,
43

Manavit, Augustin,
36

Manchurian language,
149
,
151

Mandinka language,
112

Marathi language,
47
n,
193
,
194
,
202

Marvelous Possessions
(Greenblatt), ix

Maryland, University of,
24

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
81
,
83
,
190
,
226

Massachusetts language,
76

Maswary, Dave,
109

Mayan calendar,
119
n

Mecca,
47

Mediterranean Sea,
3

memory,
11
,
24
,
25
,
34
,
36
,
38
,
62
,
63
,
95
,
163
–65,
175
,
240
,
259

boosting of,
237

decay and loss of,
18
,
73
,
102
n,
137

declarative,
288

long-term,
133
,
134
,
135
,
143
,
234
,
236
,
237

photographic,
92

procedural,
165
,
287
–88

verbal,
163

visual,
236

working,
98
,
134
–37,
139
–40,
227
–28,
233
,
236
,
263
,
275
,
293

metaphors,
31
,
96

“Mexican” language,
43

Mexico,
14
,
87
–89,
118

pre-Columbian,
60

Mezzofanti, Francis,
32
,
35

Mezzofanti, Giuseppe Cardinal,
4,
18
,
24
,
48
,
50
–54,
67
,
78
,
84
,
92
–93

asceticism and humility of,
37
,
60
–61

biographies of,
16
,
36
,
37
,
40
,
41
–44,
45
,
58
,
137
–38,
277
,
285
,
294

birth of,
32
,
33
,
58

celebrity of,
58
,
81

childhood and adolescence of,
32
–36,
148

correspondence of,
30
–31,
39
,
61
,
93

death and burial of,
33
,
59

education of,
32
–35,
36
–37

extraordinary linguistic skills of,
3
–6,
11
,
12
,
16
–17,
19
,
30
–32,
35
–44,
56
–63,
74
,
100
,
113
,
115
,
137
–38,
210
,
222

handwriting of,
30
–31,
39
,
60
,
93
,
268

historic archive
of,
27
–32,
36
,
38
–40,
57
–62,
93
,
267
–69,
269

illnesses of,
35
,
37
,
124

knowledge and humor of,
11

as librarian,
3
,
57
–62,
261

personal library of,
58
–60,
267

poetry of,
30
,
31
,
57
,
60
–61

priesthood of,
3
,
33
,
35
–38,
46
,
58
–60

skepticism about,
42
,
61
–62,
92
–93,
101
,
105
,
140

social rank of,
46

teaching of,
35

testing of,
6
,
16
–17,
109

migration,
8
,
84
–85,
90
–91,
140
,
190

Mikolainis,
Peter,
153
–54

Milton, John,
194
,
280

Mind of a Savant, The: Language Learning and Modularity
(Smith and Tsimpli),
94
–97,
98
,
283

Minnesota, University of,
259

Mismeasure of Man, The
(Gould),
177

Mithridates, King of Persia,
4
,
12
,
42

mnemonics,
99

Moby-Dick
(Melville),
17

Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT),
163

modularity,
97
–98

Mongolian language,
149
,
151

monolingualism,
8
,
20
,
35
,
47
,
52
,
63
,
90
,
140

culture and,
18
,
206

Moore, Leslie,
190
,
206
,
290

morphology,
22

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
23
,
83

multicompetence,
52
–56

multilingualism,
18
,
21
–26,
34
,
52
–54,
68
,
89
–93,
174

countries strong in,
85
,
188
–205

political evolution of,
90
–91

musical ability,
23
,
57
,
99
,
163
,
171
n,
179
,
231

Muslims,
47
,
191
,
192
,
197
,
200

Myers-Briggs personality type test,
215

Myers-Scotton,
Carol,
13

Napoleón I, Emperor of France,
35

Narraganset language,
76

nationalism,
51
,
84
,
90

Native Americans,
40
,
76
,
148
,
219

“natural education,”
79

Navajo language,
82

nervous system,
85
n,
86

neural tribe,
15
,
213
,
214
–16,
229
,
234
,
239
,
242
–43,
247
,
265

neurodiversity,
214

Neurodiversity
(Armstrong),
214
–15

New Age movement,
119
n