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8 - Luria’s biolinguistic suggestion and the growth of language

from Part I - Language development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2013

By
Ken Wexler
Edited by
Cedric Boeckx  and
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Cedric Boeckx
Affiliation:
The Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Affiliation:
University of Cyprus
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This chapter reviews a small, selective number of results in the study of the maturation of language, to illustrate its present state. It explores the question about confrontation with biological data, and uses illustrations to provide results. The chapter discusses the possibility of a wedge into the biological study of the human mind, looking at what is possible in the study of the biology of cognition. It reviews the study of language impairment (LI). There is good reason to believe that children with Specific LI are not just the tail of a normal distribution of development. There is a large complex of properties that flows from the analysis of the finiteness system, or generally the unique checking constraint (UCC)-delayed system, as a piece of biological development. Biology takes behavioral genetic data seriously, as part of its enterprise, so the integration of which Salvador Luria wrote has in fact occurred.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics , pp. 94 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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