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Neurobiology and linguistics are not yet unifiable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

David Poeppel
Affiliation:
Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628. poeppel@itsa.ucsf.edu; david.poeppel@rad-mac1.ucsf.edu

Abstract

Neurobiological models of language need a level of analysis that can account for the typical range of language phenomena. Because linguistically motivated models have been successful in explaining numerous language properties, it is premature to dismiss them as biologically irrelevant. Models attempting to unify neurobiology and linguistics need to be sensitive to both sources of evidence.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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