Brownlee, Shannon. "The Southpaw's Secret Semantics." U.S.News & World Report (1992): 66. Print.
The article by Shannon Brownlee, covers the scientific endeavor to reveal the inner workings of the brain, and how it relates to dominate handedness, and the development of linguistics. It has long been a debate on how children learn to speak. Whether it is through immersion, or genetics, scientists are still uncertain as to how we can comprehended the implicit rules of grammar. Scientist such as Noam Chomsky of MIT, and Thomas Bever of the University of Rochester, point out that all languages fallow somewhat similar rules. This is paired with the knowledge that right handed and left handed people have different hemisphere dominance in the brain. Right handed people generally have dominance in the left hemisphere, while left handed people use the right. If language is somehow a product of genetics, than that leads to the possibility that if a left handed person exists in a predominately right handed genetic line, that would alter how that right handed person processes language. This hypothesis was backed up with testing that concluded that purely right handed families rely on association, and are more adept to the rules of language. Where as a right handed person in a family with a left handed person relies on memorization. This ultimately points to the fact that language could be genetic, but is still under much scrutiny. Further understanding will lead us to an understanding in how humans use and develop language.
