Linguistics 2 John M. Kennedy 1. Accordingly, we may expect to find different parts of the brain handling different components of language.
Speech production is a frontal-lobe function.
Broca's area is just in front of the primary motor area. Function words, word order and affixes are not used effectively. However, they understand reference -what an X is and what it is likely to do. An auditory area of the brain is crucial to reception of language, and requires sensitivity not just to sounds but to special sequences of sounds. Wernicke's proposed his area contains memories of speech sounds.