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Neuropsychological Evidence for Linguistic Modularity

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Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 7))

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Language disorders resulting from brain damage provide a unique perspective on language processing in the normal case. In this paper, I wish to argue that language pathology may provide considerable support for one set of claims about language processing: the thesis of linguistic modularity. In particular, I will review the neuropsychological evidence that bears most directly upon the claim that syntactic structure is computed by an autonomous processing module.

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Linebarger, M.C. (1989). Neuropsychological Evidence for Linguistic Modularity. In: Carlson, G.N., Tanenhaus, M.K. (eds) Linguistic Structure in Language Processing. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2729-2_6

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