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Overview
How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language? This accessible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break down in individuals with different types of brain damage. By studying children with language disorders, adults with right-hemisphere brain damage, demented patients and people with reading problems, the authors provide an understanding of how language is organized in the brain.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521466417
- ISBN-10: 0521466415
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: February 1998
- Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 226
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