Very interesting, thank you. Feels like an inverse effect of where multilingual people fall back to their first language for counting things.
Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if there's some similarly inverted connection to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis here, where languages affect the way we actually think.
People suffering on the Schizophrenic spectrum often hyperfocus on topics, and secondary grammars and semantics seem like worthy candidates.
Still thinking out loud, I guess I can see how a new "alien" language (i.e. not someone's native) could lead someone on the schizophrenic spectrum to a fixation and a pole for clanging.
Schizo-affected people often attach to new topics of interest - conspiracies, delusions, new nodes in their social graph, et al - I can see how linguistics would fit in here.
Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if there's some similarly inverted connection to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis here, where languages affect the way we actually think.
People suffering on the Schizophrenic spectrum often hyperfocus on topics, and secondary grammars and semantics seem like worthy candidates.
Still thinking out loud, I guess I can see how a new "alien" language (i.e. not someone's native) could lead someone on the schizophrenic spectrum to a fixation and a pole for clanging.
Schizo-affected people often attach to new topics of interest - conspiracies, delusions, new nodes in their social graph, et al - I can see how linguistics would fit in here.