Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

The intense effort to characterize Broca's region has produced many views on its anatomy
and function. Here, we present the leading approaches and consider ways to adjudicate …

A new view of the functional role of the left anterior cortex in language use is proposed. The
experimental record indicates that most human linguistic abilities are not localized in this …

We suggest here a Growing Trees approach for the description of the acquisition of various
syntactic structures in Hebrew, based on the main results reported in Friedmann and …

ABSTRACT I propose an analysis of the inflectional system of clauses that captures both
crosslinguistic variation and differences between adult speakers and young children …

Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation
of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and …

Publisher Summary This chapter investigates the comprehension of discourse-linked and
non discourse-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics. The main goal of this …

Brain damage may doubly dissociate cognitive modules, but the practice of revealing
dissociations is predicated on modularity being true (T. Shallice, 1988). This article …

The study explored the ability of children with syntactic SLI (S-SLI) to produce relative
clauses, using two structured elicitation tasks. A preference task and a picture description …

This study presents results from sentence-completion and grammaticality-judgment tasks
with 7 German-speaking agrammatic aphasics and 7 age-matched control subjects …