{"pk":30616,"title":"A Tale of Two Brains or The Sinistral Quasimodality of Language","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Four experiments show that people differ strongly in the extent to v^ich they depend on linguistic structure during language comprehension.Structure-dependent people are immediately affected by grammatical variables,vrtiile structure-independent people are less affected by such variables. A surprising population difference between the two types of people suggests a genetic and neurological basis for the behavioral difference. All subjects were right-handed. However, structure-dependent people report no left-handers in their family, while structure-independent people do report left-handers in their family. This suggests that the neurological organization for linguistic ability in right handers with familial left-handedness, is more diffuse than for right handers with no familial left-handedness. Other facts connect this to a current hormonal theory of the ontogenesis of hemispheric asymmetries.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Linguistics III","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nb3218h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"G.","last_name":"Bever","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Caroline","middle_name":"","last_name":"Carrithers","name_suffix":"","institution":"Johns Hopkins University","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Townsend","name_suffix":"","institution":"Montclair State College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1987-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30616/galley/20465/download/"}]}