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Chapter 1. What is Language? Linguistics and the Study of Language. Phonetics and Phonology. Syntax. Morphology. Semantics. Chapter 2. How Language Sounds are Produced and Perceived. Physiology of Speech Production. Acoustic Analysis of Speech. Production and Perception of Vowels and Consonants. Chapter 3. How the Brain Controls Vocalizations. Basic Concepts of Brain Anatomy and Physiology. Neural Centers Controlling Vocalizations. Analogies Between Human Languages and Bird Song. Chapter 4. Language Areas in the Brain. Pioneering Studies. The Location of Articulated Language. Cerebral Lateralization of Linguistic Functions. Sensory Aphasia. The Control of Voluntary Movement According to Wernicke. The Language Scheme in the Brain. Clinical Cases. Chapter 5. Aphasia: The Undoing of Language. Basic Terminology of Aphasia. Different Types of Aphasia. The Right Hemisphere and Verbal Communication. Chapter 6. The Assessment of Aphasia. Clinical Criteria. Aphasia Tests in Monolinguals. Aphasia Tests in Bilinguals. Chapter 7. Methods for Studying the Organization of Language in the Brain. Studies on Normal Subjects. Dichotic Listening. The Verbal-Manual Interference Paradigm (Finger-tapping). Tachistoscopic Viewing. Recording the Electrical Activity of the Brain. Functional Brain Imaging. Investigation Techniques for Neurological Patients. Carotid Sodium Amytal Injection (Wada test). Electric Stimulation of the Brain. Computerized Axial Tomography. Magnetic Resonance Imagining. Chapter 8. The Representation of Language in the Brain. Fundamentals of Neurophysiology. Cortical Representation of Language. Models of Language Processing. A Neurofunctional Model of Language Processing. Chapter 9. The Role of Subcortical Structures in Language. A Neuropsychological Model of Subcortical Language Structures. The Role of the Cerebellum. Motor Aspects of Language Functions. Chapter 10. Memory and Language Acquisition and Learning. Two General Memory Systems: Long Term and Short Term Memory. Working Memory. Types of Long Term Memory. Explicit Memory. Implicit Memory. The Anatomy of Memory. Types of Memory Involved in Language Acquisition and Learning. Chapter 11. What Does it Mean to be Bilingual? Is Bilingualism Useful? Types of Bilingualism. Bilingual Education. Chapter 12. First Language Recovery in Aphasics. Rules and Exceptions in Recovery Patterns. The Recovery of the First Language. Chapter 13. Second Language Recovery in Aphasics. Factors Affecting Language Recovery. The Degree of Familiarity of a Language. The Visual Factor. Psychological and Emotional Factors. The Language Spoken to the Patient in the Hospital. Languages Used in Specific Circumstances. Languages Learnt at University. Linguistic Factors. Organic Factors. Chapter 14. Paradoxical Recovery of a Language. Recovery of a Dead Language. Recovery of Languages Used in Liturgy. Recovery of a 'Classical' Language. Paradoxical Recovery of the Second Language. The Role of Memory in Paradoxical Language Recovery. Chapter 15. Selective Aphasia. A Case of Selective Crossed Aphasia. Possible Explanations of Selective Aphasia. Chapter 16. Differential Aphasia. Chapter 17. Pathological Switching and Mixing. Switching Disorders. Pathologic Fixation on One Language. Spontaneous Switching. Hypotheses on the Neurological Mechanisms of Language Switching. Pathological Mixing. Neurolinguistic Models of Language Switching. Chapter 18. Alternate Antagonism. A Case of a Double Dissociation in Linguistic Behaviour. Recent Cases of Alternate Antagonism. Chapter 19. Subcortical Aphasia in Bilinguals. Thalamic Aphasia in Monolinguals. Thalamic Aphasia in Bilinguals. Basal Ganglia Aphasia in Monolinguals. Basal Ganglia Aphasia in Bilinguals. Chapter 20. Aphasia in Bilingual Children. Acquired Aphasia in Children. Acquired Aphasia in Bilingual Children. Neuroli