forwarded re: lg. localization in brain

[Patrick Griffiths]

Suzette Hadin Elgin and others interested might like to know that
Info-CHILDES, the list of the Child Language Data Exchange System,
recently carried a short discussion of the July 1997 NATURE article on
bilingual brain localization.  I found it informative.  Info-CHILDES
discussions are archived at

        http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/childes/index.html

Applications to SUBSCRIBE to Info-CHILDES should, I believe, go to
        info-childes-request at andrew.cmu.edu

On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Suzanne E Kemmer wrote:

> I've been asked to post the following on Funknet. --S.K.
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>
>
> >From ocls at ipa.net Sat Oct  4 10:44 CDT 1997
> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 10:51:24 -0600
> From: ocls at ipa.net (George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin)
>
> I would very much appreciate hearing something from knowledgeable
> members of the list about their reaction to the July 1997 report in
> *Nature* (and media worldwide) that persons who learn more than one
> language as infants store them in a single Broca's area location in
> the brain while those who learn additional languages as adults store
> them in separate Broca's area locations in the brain. (Brutal summary,
> I know, but enough to identify the topic in question.) Could I have
> some reactions? And a reaction to the claim that no matter how many
> separate areas of this sort are established, the "semantics" of all
> languages acquired is stored in a single Wernicke's area site?  The
> research, done with functional MRIs, is also reported in an Internet
> news release from Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Thanks for your help....
>
>
>         Suzette Haden Elgin
>         ocls at ipa.net
>
>                                 ***

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