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Neurobiological approaches to language: Falsehoods and fallacies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Yosef Grodzinsky
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel, and Aphasia Research Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02130. yosefl@freud.tau.ac.il

Abstract

The conclusion that language is not really innate or modular is based on several fallacies. I show that the target article confuses communicative skills with linguistic abilities, and that its discussion of brain/language relations is replete with factual errors. I also criticize its attempt to contrast biological and linguistic principles. Finally, I argue that no case is made for the “alternative” approach proposed here.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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