Language "locations" in the brain

Mon Sep 29 13:23:12 UTC 1997

I would very much appreciate hearing something from the knowledgeable
members of Funknet about their reaction to the recent (July 10, 1997)
report in *Nature*  (and media worldwide) that persons who learn more than
one language as infants store them in a single location in the brain while
those who learn additional languages as adults store them in separate
locations in the brain. (Brutal summary, I know, but enough to identify the
topic in question.) The research was done using functional MRIs,
pre-surgery.  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 area? Thanks
for your help....

Suzette Haden Elgin
ocls at ipa.net