Components of the language-ready brain

• Main Author: Antonio Benitez-Burraco (auth)
• Other Authors: Cedric Boeckx (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; globularization; phonology; brain oscillations; Brain asymmetry; language development; merge; Speech; Language production; language-readiness; temporal attention; Retinoic acid; Communication
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This volume highlights new avenues of research in the language sciences, and particularly, in the neurobiology of language. The term "language-ready brain" stresses, on the one hand, the importance of a brain-based description of our species' linguistic capacity, and, on the other, th...