LING444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hemispherectomy, Prefrontal Cortex, Aphasia

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING444
• Professor: Vainikka

Document Summary

Tells us about the connection between various parts of the brain and the different components of language. Shows that lh associated with syntax (while removing the rh does not seem to affect syntax) Auxiliary use: lh hemispherectomy children produced (7) typical in 2-year olds. Syntactic phenomena such as passive, word order and auxiliaries are difficult for lh hemispherectomy children. Rh hemispherectomy children (with a working lh) are fine with syntax. The primacy of the syllable in phonology. Research on the multi-electrode recordings of human neruaonal activity in response to speech sounds, in the lh. Synthesis of various strands of evidence, sussman proposes that in neurogenesis a hard-wired, syllabically-organized, neural substrate emerges in the lh of the brain. That is, there are neurons that are specified for phonology that make their way to the lh. The neural substrate ends up representing the phonemic elements of one"s language, in particular the vocalic (vowel) nucleus of the syllable.