Coalescence of Well Installed Modules becomes Self-Generating

(This is Part 2 of the two-part blog installment that began yesterday with "Part 1".)

Dear Fellow Earthlings, Children learn language holistically, adults learn it atomistically. By practicing The Jingles the

"atoms" needed by adult learners of phonologies that are not native to them are brought together

to form "molecular segments" (segmentals such as vowels, consonants, semivowels, and clicks),

that coalesce into "cellular segments" (segmentals paired with suprasegmentals such as tones,

pauses, volume variation, pitch, and rhythm), "tissue level segments" (such as phonemes,

morphemes, and words), "organ level segments" (such as idioms, expressions, clauses, sentences,

and paragraphs) , and finally into a "phonome" (the secondary allophonome that now joins the

client's primary (that is native language) allophonome. Unlike children learning language, adults need to approach the acquisition of target language

phonology employing small modules that, if delivered to the brain in near nativelike form, will

gradually accumulate and coalesce into a nativelike target language allophonome. These modules

can reach nativelike parity, however, only through the intervention possibilities fostered by

"TRAINING MODE" production of The Jingles. In the hierarchy described in the first paragraph of today's installment, what then would the next level beyond the phonome be? Abductive reasoning suggests that the next level is the homo sapiens genome. For it is our human genome that provides the hardware to produce human speech. That hardware comes in the form of our sophisticated brain and of its ability to coordinate our speech motor skills employment through the use of the masseter, tongue, lips, dentition, throat, diaphragm, lungs, intercostals, and abdominals. The result will be a change in the learner from being a monolingual person to a bilingual person (at least, in terms of kerm phonological level of competency). Such teaching strategies as the 20 - 30 second uploading interval (described in Part 1 of this

2-part blog) employed by a skilled Jingles instructor take advantage of the human predisposition to

learn language by providing the adult learner of the phonological system of a second language

with a means to mitigate the effects of post adolescent hemispheric separation. To wit, the techniques employed by the skilled Jingles instructor not only shorten the time needed for a Jingles client to reach kerm goal -- they bring the attainment of that goal into the realm of feasibility! Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

© 2013 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises.