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Language Representation and Brain Development

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This chapter deals only with the disorders of language due to cortical lesions in childhood, excluding the developmental aphasias and dyslexias. as well as dysarthria and dysphonia due to subcortical lesions.

Travail de l’Unité de Recherches Neuropsychologiques et Neurolinguistiques (U-111) de l’I.N.S.E.R.M., Laboratoire de Pathologie du Langage de l’E.H.E.S.S., E.R.A. No 274 au C.N.R.S., 2ter, rue d’Alésia — 75014 PARIS.

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Hecaen, H. (1977). Language Representation and Brain Development. In: Berenberg, S.R. (eds) Brain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8884-5_8

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