Development of Language Relevant Processing Systems: The Emergence of a Cognitive Module

Abstract

presents evidence for the claim that syntactic processes which are fast, automatic and informationally encapsulated in the adult language system only gradually gain their modular status during development... [discusses experiments] which evaluated open and closed class word processing in the sentential contexts in normal adults, aphasic adults and children; [presents experiments which] investigated the event-related brain activity of normal adults while reading and while listening to sentences, focussing on the involvement of anterior parts of the left hemisphere in the processing of syntactic information (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)