The Neural Basis of Recursion and Complex Syntactic Hierarchy
Language is a faculty specific to humans. It is characterized by hierarchical, recursive structures. The processing of hierarchically complex sentences is known to recruit Broca’s area. Comparisons across brain imaging studies investigating similar hierarchical structures in different domains reveal...
Main Authors: | Angela Dorkas Friederici, Jörg Bahlmann, Roland Friedrich, Michiru Makuuchi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Biolinguistics
2011-06-01
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Series: | Biolinguistics |
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Online Access: | http://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/170 |
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