In article <cjm6689.13.2F42579D at silver.sdsmt.edu>, cjm6689 at silver.sdsmt.edu (CYN
THIA 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?
>>( I am also aware that adults with right hemisphere
>language development have this due to some kind of left hemisphere traumatic
>brain injury during childhood or adolescence, but I am told all language
>initially is concieved in the left hemi..)
>>Thanks for any input...
>>Cindy
>cjm6689 at silver.sdsmt.edu><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
MY guess is that the right brain was used for everything else and the left
brain was not very active except to correlate information for right brain
useage. The left brain was available to correlate symbolically sounds.
The significance of this development was us.
Ron Blue
