Michael Ullman. "A neurocognitive perspective on language: the declarative/procedural model." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2 (2001): 717-726.
This paper examines the neurocognition of two basic language capacities: the memorization of words in the mental lexicon, and the rule-governed combination of words by the mental grammar. According to the declarative/procedural model, the mental lexicon depends on declarative memory and is rooted in the temporal lobe, while the mental grammar involves procedural memory and is rooted in the frontal cortex and basal ganglia. This model provides a new framework for the study of lexicon and grammar.
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