24.616, Books: The Neural Architecture Of Grammar: Nadeau

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Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:34:30
From: David Weininger [dgw at mit.edu]
Subject: The Neural Architecture Of Grammar: Nadeau

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Title: The Neural Architecture Of Grammar 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262017022 

Author: Stephen Nadeau

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262017022 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 40.00

Abstract:

Linguists have mapped the topography of language behavior in many languages in
intricate detail. To understand how the brain supports language function,
however, we must take into account the principles and regularities of neural
function. Mechanisms of neurolinguistic function cannot be inferred solely
from observations of normal and impaired language. In The Neural Architecture
of Grammar, Stephen Nadeau develops a neurologically plausible theory of
grammatic function. He brings together principles of neuroanatomy,
neurophysiology, and parallel distributed processing and draws on literature
on language function from cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology,
psycholinguistics, and functional imaging to develop a comprehensive neurally
based theory of language function.

Nadeau reviews the aphasia literature, including cross-linguistic aphasia
research, to test the model’s ability to account for the findings of these
empirical studies. Nadeau finds that the model readily accounts for a crucial
finding in cross-linguistic studies--that the most powerful determinant of
patterns of language breakdown in aphasia is the predisorder language spoken
by the subject--and that it does so by conceptualizing grammatic function in
terms of the statistical regularities of particular languages that are encoded
in network connectivity. He shows that the model provides a surprisingly good
account for many findings and offers solutions for a number of controversial
problems. Moreover, aphasia studies provide the basis for elaborating the
model in interesting and important ways.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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