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Jul 1984
ISBN 0262031019
432 pp.
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Biological Perspectives on Language
David Caplan

Profoundly influenced by the analyses of contemporary linguistics, these original contributions bring a number of different views to bear on important issues in a controversial area of study. The linguistic structures and language-related processes the book deals with are for the most part central (syntactic structures, phonological representations, semantic readings) rather than peripheral (acoustic-phonetic structures and the perception and production of these structures) aspects of language. Each section of the book has a summarizing introduction.

Table of Contents
 Errata
 Series Foreword
 Introduction
1 The Mental Organ for Language
by David Caplan
2 Neural Mechanisms, Aphasia, and Theories of Language
by Norman Geschwind
3 Brain-Based and Non-Brain-Based Models of Language
by John Morton
4 Vocal Learning and its Possible Relation to Replaceable Synapses and Neurons
by Fernando Nottebohm
5 Infant Competence and the Acquisition of Language
by Peter D. Eimas
6 Linguistic Analysis of Aphasic Syndromes: The Doing and Undoing of Aphasia Research
by Mary-Louise Kean
7 Clinical Description of Aphasia: Linguistic Aspects
by Jean-Luc Nespoulous AndrÉ Roch Lecours
8 Psycholinguistic Interpretations of the Aphasias
by Edgar Zurif
9 The Organization of Processing Structure for Language Production: Applications to Aphasic Speech
by Merrill F. Garrett
10 The Neuropsychology of Bilingualism
by Loraine K. Obler
11 Where is the Speech Area, and Who Has Seen It?
by AndrÉ Roch Lecours, Anna Basso, Sylvia Moraschini and Jean-Luc Nespoulous
12 Determinants of Recovery from Aphasia
by Andrew Kertesz
13 The Anatomy of Language: Lessons from Comparative Anatomy
by Albert M. Galaburda
14 Event-Related Potentials in the Study of Speech and Language: A Critical Review
by Terence W. Picton and Donald T. Struss
15 Neural Models and a Little About Language
by James A. Anderson
 List of Contributors
 Index
 
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