Language and the Brain Paperback / softback
by Loraine K. (City University of New York) Obler, Kris (Gamut Logistics, Elizabeth, New Jersey) Gjerlow
Part of the Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language?
This concise and accessible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break down in individuals with different types of brain damage, such as children with language disorders, adults with right-hemisphere brain damage, demented patients, and people with reading problems.
In a wide-ranging discussion, the authors also cover the effects of brain damage on bilingual people, as well as the reading and writing difficulties experienced by dyslexics and dysgraphics.
Information is also provided on 'split-brain' patients, visual-gestural languages, and language savants.
By studying the linguistic behaviour of these groupings, the authors provide an understanding of how language is organized in the brain.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages, 5 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/02/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521466417
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages, 5 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/02/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521466417
