The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

The ability to create structures out of single words is a key aspect of human language. This
combinatorial capacity relies on a low-level syntactic mechanism—Merge—assembling …

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but
problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all …

An integral part of human language is the capacity to extract meaning from spoken and
written words, but the precise relationship between brain representations of information …

Humans have a striking ability to infer meaning from even the sparsest and most abstract
forms of narratives. At the same time, flexibility in the form of a narrative is matched by …

Although sentences unfold sequentially, one word at a time, most linguistic theories propose
that their underlying syntactic structure involves a tree of nested phrases rather than a linear …

The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The
critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Neurolinguistic accounts of sentence comprehension identify a network of relevant brain
regions, but do not detail the information flowing through them. We investigate syntactic …

Most contemporary theories of semantic memory assume that concepts are formed from the
distillation of information arising in distinct sensory and verbal modalities. The neural basis …