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Familial language impairment: The evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Myrna Gopnik
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5, Canada. inmg@musicb.mcgill.ca

Abstract

Müller argues that general cognitive skills and linguistic skills are not necessarily independent. However, cross-linguistic evidence from an inherited specific language disorder affecting productive rules suggests significant degrees of modularity, innateness, and universality of language. Confident claims about the overall nature of such a complex system still await more interdisciplinary research.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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