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From Broca's aphasia to the language module: A transformation too large?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Fred H. Previc
Affiliation:
Flight Motion Effects Branch, Biodynamics and Protection Division, Crew Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235-5104. fred.previc@afrlars.brooks.af.mil
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Abstract

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This commentary focuses on the larger implications of Grodzinsky's hypothesis. Although Grodzinsky argues persuasively that the syntactic comprehension deficits in Broca's aphasia involve mainly an inability to comprehend sentences requiring a transformational movement of phrasal constituents, his larger claim for a distinct and dedicated “language organ” in the left hemisphere is much less tenable.

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Brief Report
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press