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From New Scientist magazine, 29 January 2000. Sound it out Does the brain process vowels and consonants in different places? ARE consonants and vowels just categories that we invented to help describe our languages, or are there intrinsic differences between the two sounds that the brain can recognise? Scientists have just chalked up a point for the second idea in this long-standing debate. Alfonso Caramazza at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachussetts, and his colleagues in Italy were studying two Italian patients who had trouble repeating words. One, given the name AS, was a 41-year-old woman, and the other was a 52-year-old man called IFA. The language problems of both these patients began after they suffered strokes. Full text: http://www.newscientist.co.uk/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223118 (from peter.kabai@gmail.com) |
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