cjm6689 at silver.sdsmt.edu (CYNTHIA J. MONHEIM) writes:
>Does anyone have an answer as to WHY language ability initially develops in
>the left hemispere, without exception? The only answer I have been able to
>extract from my professors is "because it's designed that way". So WHY is it
>designd that way???? What special properties does the left side possess that
>are not present in the right?
The basic answer is that no one knows why. There are a number of theories,
but no one really knows the basis of language lateralization. A good book
on this topic (and the hemispheres in general) is "Left Brain, Right Brain",
by Springer and Deutsch (or Deutsch and Springer).
Kevin
