Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy (1975)
SHANKWEILER, Donald, and Michael Studdert-Kennedy. “A Continuum of Lateralization for Speech Perception?” Brain and Language 2 (1975): 212-225.
Motivated in large part by inconclusive experimental results, the authors of this study point to possible reinterpretations of broader questions of brain laterality. Just as handedness appears to be along a gradient, they suggest that language dominance may fall along a gradient as well. This is in part due to the fact that there appears to be a correlation between handedness and language dominance (in the contralateral hemisphere). They suggest that
we should be viewing lateralization not simply as a fixed anatomical characteristic… but rather as a process or function governing the relations between hemispheres, and open to variation among individuals. (222)
