Language Development and Neurological Theory.

SEGALOWITZ, SIDNEY J. [ED.].

ISBN 10: 0126356505 / ISBN 13: 9780126356502

Published by New York, Academic Press 1977, 1977

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Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 376PP., graphs, 20 contributors, references, list contributors, index subjects.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Development and Neurological Theory.
• Publisher: New York, Academic Press 1977
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0126356505
• ISBN 13: 9780126356502
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

Language Development and Neurological Theory presents a neuropsychological theory of language development. The discussions are organized around the following cerebral specialization for language in normal and brain-damaged individuals; development of cerebral dominance; and speech perception. Much emphasis is placed on the issue of cerebral specialization, or lateralization. Comprised of 20 chapters, this volume begins with a review of some of the methods used to correlate neurophysiological and behavioral functions, as well as some of the issues involved in trying to unite the empirical science of neuropsychology and the rationalist science of linguistics. The next chapter deals with lateralization for speech sounds shown by young infants and possible factors in the sound signal responsible for the differentiation. Subsequent chapters focus on asymmetries in young children during continuous verbal-nonvisual and visual-nonverbal story tasks; the effects of multi-language elementary school program on the degree of lateralization for language; intramodal and cross-modal pattern perception in stroke patients with lateralized lesions; and visual half-field asymmetries in deaf and hearing children. Several hypotheses as to why language is lateralized to the left hemisphere rather than to the right are also examined. This book is addressed to researchers and students of the neuropsychology of language, whether they call themselves psychologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, or linguists.