Abstract
Second language acquisition (SLA) can contribute to the changes in the brain. The paper having a holistic perspective towards the relation between brain and language asserts that the impact of SLA on the brain change is poorly studied. Moreover, claiming that the brain change is dynamic implicates the assumption that the plasticity of the brain is not merely determined by age-related factors. In this regard, experience, in general, and SLA, in particular, has a tremendous effect on the brain change. Thus, resting on the claim that SLA is respected as software and contributes to the function of brain, the paper directs the attention towards agrammatism which attracts much attention from the researchers in neurolinguists. The article also tends to cast lights upon our perceptions towards the notion of change in the brain from the neurolinguistic perspective.
Highlights
Our brains are voracious and highly sensitive analyzers of language input and output
Neurolinguistics, as the study of the neural mechanisms concerned with language-brain relationship (Caplan, 1987), provides a plausible justification for the voracity and sensitivity of the brain to language input
Though there is a variety of perspectives regarding the relationship between language and the brain including localism, associationism, holisticism, and evolution-based theories, the paper, more or less, compatible with the holistic perspective, considers many language functions of the brain resulted from widespread areas of the brain working together
Summary
Our brains are voracious and highly sensitive analyzers of language input and output. Though there is a variety of perspectives regarding the relationship between language and the brain including localism, associationism, holisticism, and evolution-based theories, the paper, more or less, compatible with the holistic perspective, considers many language functions of the brain resulted from widespread areas of the brain working together. Associationists, in contrast, draw a connection between different areas of the brain, and make it possible to associate, for instance, perceptions of different senses with words and/or concepts, and, evolution-based theorists who are in favor of hierarchical development of the brain stress the relationship between how the brain and language evolved over time in different species, how they develop in children, and how adults perform language functions (Ahlsen, 2006). Finding out how the brain understands and produces language and communication will pave the way for better understanding of the brain structure
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