When 2½-year-old Max,and his father,Simon,listened to short sentences-some grammatically correct,others with phrase-structure violations-both showed similarly distinct ERP brain-wave patterns for each sentence type in the left frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex.This suggests that

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The fact that both the toddler and the adult showed similar brain-wave patterns for each sentence type suggests that a toddler processes sentence structures using the same neural system as an adult does. This indicates that the neural mechanisms underlying language processing may be innate and largely independent of language experience.

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