单词 | language organ |
释义 | > as lemmaslanguage organ language organ n. (usually with the) a part of the human body, esp. a (notional) part of the brain, viewed as responsible for the use or comprehension of language; (in later use also) the mental structure and processes by which humans use and understand language. ΚΠ 1867 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 13 207 Dr. G. Dax tried to prove that the lesion concomitant with Aphasia, was invariably seated in the anterior and outer portion of the middle lobe of the left hemisphere, thus locating the seat of the language organ very near to the island of Reil. 1918 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 2 221 The first and strongest impression of a new word is received through the ear, the natural language organ. 1979 Signs 5 371 There are many profound insights into the nature of language and the structure of what Chomsky dubs the ‘language organ’. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct x. 307 This region of the cortex, the left perisylvian region, can be considered to be the language organ. < as lemmas |
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