Linguistics & Language · Psycholinguistics & Acquisition
A topic within Psycholinguistics & Acquisition, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
2 works
Myrna Gopnik & Martha Crago
Documents a three-generation family with a heritable pattern of grammatical impairment affecting tense, number and agreement marking, arguing the data point to a genetically influenced deficit specific to grammar rather than to general cognition.
Ursula Bellugi, Liz Lichtenberger, Wendy Jones, Zona Lai & Marie St. George
Describes a genetic syndrome in which relatively fluent language and sociability coexist with severe visuospatial and general cognitive impairment, using the dissociation to argue language is not simply a byproduct of general intelligence.