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The functional neuroanatomy of inflectional morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Michael T. Ullman
Affiliation:
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007 michael@giccs.georgetown.edu www.giccs.georgetown.edu/labs/ullman
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Abstract

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Clahsen has presented an impressive range of psycholinguistic data from German regular and irregular inflection to support the view that lexical memory and the combinatorial operations of grammar are subserved by distinct mental mechanisms. Most of the data are convincing and important. I particularly applaud Clahsen's effort to extend this lexical/grammatical dichotomy from mind to brain. Here I discuss some problems with the evidence presented by Clahsen in support of a neural lexical/grammatical dichotomy, and offer some additional evidence to reinforce this neural distinction.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press