The Boundaries of Babel

By Andrea Moro, Ivano Caponigro (translator), Daniel B. Kane (translator)

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1 author picked The Boundaries of Babel as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I couldn’t put down this book from the very first pages that tell the story of Monsieur Leborgne and how Doctor Broca, who treated him, made the vital linguistic discovery that immortalized his name.

I learned that some groundbreaking linguistic discoveries are still made in hospitals, but one no longer needs to have a brain injury to be of interest to neurolinguistic science.

I also loved discovering how clever experiments are designed and how MRI gives us a window into how language works in the brain in real-time. 

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