‘language in the brain’- ihss linguistic blog; talulah

 This article was talking about ‘language in the brain’. Language, whether spoken or written, is a universal tool used by all humans. This article questioned what role the brain has in language, and if speaking is hard-wired into us, or is something we learn. Everyone knows how to understand at least one language, and is usually pretty good at it. Everyone also knows about Math, and Art, yet a select few master, or even come close to good at it. This would make some think, that language must be easier to learn than other subjects, but the opposite is true, language is one the most complex skills to know, yet we find it easy. The fact that some people lack skills in subjects taught to us, like art, music, math, science, etc. yet everyone masters language had scientists boggled. This lead them to theorize that language is hard-wired into our brains and is a part of our biological blueprint. To test this hypothesis, they studied people with aphasia, patients with damage to the part of the brain that deals with language. They wanted to know which parts of language are lost when damaged, and which are spared. They found that loss of language doesn't (always) connect with pragmatic loss, the way we social use language in different settings. This assured them that their hypothesis was correct, in that langue is not all taught, we are genetically designed to communicate with written and spoken language. 

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/language-and-brain 

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