Words and rules in the human brain

Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6633, 547-548

Abstract: A new study of neurological patients who can analyse regular past-tense forms of verbs but not irregular ones, or vice versa, suggests that the mental dictionary and the mental grammar may be kept in different parts of the brain.

Date: 1997
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