12.493, Disc: Parallelism Between Lang and Genome

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-493. Thu Feb 22 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.493, Disc: Parallelism Between Lang and Genome

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Date:  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:05:20 -0800 (PST)
From:  Gabriele Scheler <scheler at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject:  Re: 12.449, Disc: Parallelism Between Lang and Genome

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Date:  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:05:20 -0800 (PST)
From:  Gabriele Scheler <scheler at ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject:  Re: 12.449, Disc: Parallelism Between Lang and Genome


With respect to the neural substrate of sign language, there has been an
interesting article recently in PNAS by Petitto and Zatorre (McGill University),
showing that many areas specialized for speech are actually employed in
sign language as well (ASL etc.): even planum temporale, which was seen
as an auditory area, and which processes nonsense syllables, is used to
process nonsense gestures in sign language. So the phonological system as
such is there, and it can be employed by different modalities.

Gabriele Scheler

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