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Neuropsychological evidence for the distinction between grammatically relevant and irrelevant components of meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

David Kemmerer*
Affiliation:
Deparment of Audiology and Speech Sciences and Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1353
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Abstract:

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Jackendoff (2002) argues that grammatically relevant and irrelevant components of meaning do not occupy distinct levels of the semantic system. However, neuropsychological studies have found that the two components doubly dissociate in brain-damaged subjects, suggesting that they are in fact segregated. Neural regionalization of these multidimensional semantic subsystems might take place during language development.

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