Author: Elissa Newport
Contact email(s): eln10@georgetown.edu
3 thoughts on “Developmental plasticity and lateralization of function for language”
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Really interesting talk! I do have a question.
In perinatal stroke survivors, do all other functions (which are supposed to be carried on from the “lost” part of the LH) reverse-lateralize with such brilliant results as language? And if not, why so? Is it that language is easier to reverse-lateralize? And why?
A practical comment: The fact that 97% are left-lateralized and 75% of left-handers are too, that’s an argument that we should not exclude left-handers from, e.g. syntax ERP studies.
Fascinating work. Would you expect less left-lateralization of language functions in L1-speakers of tone languages?