Language in our brain : The origins of a uniquely human capacity
- Author
- Angela D. Friederici
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Education
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Friederici describes the basic language functions and their brain basis; the language networks connecting different language-related brain regions; the brain basis of language acquisition during early childhood and when learning a second language, proposing a neurocognitive model of the ontogeny of language; and the evolution of language and underlying neural constraints. She finds that it is the information exchange between the relevant brain regions, supported by the white matter tract, that is the crucial factor in both language development and evolution.
Keywords: Languages / Grammar, dictionaries & phrasebooks / Cognitive grammar / Cognitive learning / Cognitive science / Brain / Localization of functions / Physiology / Locations of functionality / Psycholinguistics
