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Broca's area and language evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/adc-m.html [email protected]
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Abstract

Grodzinsky associates Broca's area with three kinds of deficit, relating to articulation, comprehension (involving trace deletion), and production (involving “tree pruning”). Could these be special cases of one deficit? Evidence from research on language evolution suggests that they may all involve syllable structure or those aspects of syntax that evolved through exploiting the neural mechanisms underlying syllable structure.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 28 - 29
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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