Malaia Evie, Wilbur Ronnie
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, Heavilon Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Lingua. 2010 Dec 1;120(12):2704-2706. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.03.014.
Using sign language research as an example, we argue that both the cross-linguistic descriptive approach to data, advocated by Evans and Levinson (2009), as well as abstract ('formal') analyses are necessary steps towards the development of "neurolinguistic primitives" for investigating how human languages are instantiated in the brain.
