Biological Perspectives on Language

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Profoundly influenced by contemporary linguistics, these original contributions explore various perspectives on significant issues within a controversial field of study. The focus is primarily on central linguistic structures and language-related processes, such as syntactic structures, phonological representations, and semantic readings, rather than peripheral aspects like acoustic-phonetic structures. Each section begins with a summarizing introduction. Section I addresses the intersection of linguistics and neurology, covering topics such as the concept of a mental organ for language, neural mechanisms and aphasia, brain-based versus non-brain-based models of language, and the relationship between vocal learning and synaptic and neuronal replacement. Section II delves into linguistic and psycholinguistic matters, discussing infant language acquisition, the linguistic analysis of aphasic syndromes, clinical descriptions of aphasia, psycholinguistic interpretations of aphasias, the organization of language production processing structures, and the neuropsychology of bilingualism. Section III focuses on neural issues, exploring the location of the speech area, determinants of recovery from aphasia, the anatomy of language, insights from comparative anatomy, event-related potentials and language, and neural models with limited information about language. This work is part of the Studies in Neuropsychology and Neurolinguis