Broca's area and language evolution

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 2000; 23: 40 West 20Th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA. Cambridge Univ Press. 28+.

Abstract: Grodzinsky associates Broca's area with three kinds of deficit, relating to articulation, comprehension (involving trace deletion), and production (involving ''tree priming''). Could these be special cases of one deficit? Evidence from research on language evolution suggests that they may all involve syllable structure or those aspects of syntax that evolved through exploiting the neural mechanisms underlying syllable structure.

Note: Editorial Carstairs-McCarthy A, Univ Canterbury, Dept Linguist, Christchurch 1, NEW ZEALAND

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