Keywords
modular approaches
modular versus connectionist models of language processing
language perception
language production
syntactic processes in speech production
generative grammar
neuroimaging
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Abstract
The scope of this paper is the concept of modularity of language, which is a key to understanding the complexity of human cognitive system. The author of the paper presents various arguments in favor of the thesis that both moderate and extreme modularity-related theories allow, too much greater extent than non-modularity theories, for reconstruction and description of complex structures of the language perception and production.
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