ABSTRACT
The question of how the human mind uses language has intrigued us for centuries. The role of the brain in storing and accessing language forms the core of any study of neurolinguistics. The brain mechanisms involved in the production and comprehension of language were explained in approaches like the connectionist, hierarchical, and holist. Loss of language-using abilities could lead to different forms of aphasia.
Different aspects of language are stored and accessed from different parts of the brain. The third section deals with how sounds, morphemes, syntactic structures, and meanings are accessed by the brain.
A very interesting and important aspect with regard to neurolinguistics, especially in the context of India, is the bilingual (or multilingual) brain – how two or more languages are stored in the brain, patterns of language loss in bilinguals, and language recovery.
