Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

On 1 July, Chris Bates  wrote:

> What is the actual difference between the brains of left and right
> handed people? I've heard "in left handed people the right hemisphere is
> dominant and in right handed people the left " which I think is true,
> but what other common differences are there? Or is it all just too
> random to say? I'm asking because I'm left handed... thinking about it,
> I actually had to have speech therapy to learn how to pronounce T and D
> (english th), I couldn't pronounce them for the life of me until after I
> started school, which means I was older than 5 at the time... can't
> remember how old I was when I started. But anyway, the thing about where
> and how languages are processed just made me wonder if left handers have
> problems like that more commonly than right handers or not.
    In my years of experience working as a speech-language therapist,
I, personally,  haven't noticed that left-handers have any more need
for help in pronounciation than right-handers.
    It's ironic: here in Israel, I have no problem with kids producing
[T] and [D]. Quite the opposite, in fact! A whole lot of kids
pronounce [T] and [D]  all the time --- the only problem is that
Israeli Hebrew doesn't have those sounds, and what they are actually
trying to pronounce are [s] and [z]! Thus my job is to teach them
to take their tongues in from between their teeth and keep them
inside the mouth, rather than the opposite.

Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a

A word is an awesome thing.