Mind of a Savant Language Learning and Modularity

"In their excellent book about Christopher, Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli compare him with other savants--calendrical, artistic, musical--and with a wide variety of cases of language impairment ...And they note that Christopher's pattern of dissociation between language and general intelligence poses a problem for the idea that language development depends on general cognitive endowments....Within a theoretical framework conditioned by a set of fundamental background assumptions, Smith and Tsimpli explore the plausibility of specific theses about the mind's architecture, and about the processes of second-language learning.Smith, Neil is the author of 'Mind of a Savant Language Learning and Modularity' with ISBN 9780631190172 and ISBN 0631190171.