The brain does not serve linguistic theory so easily

It is a major move from the claim that the core linguistic problem in Broca 's aphasia is the inability to deal with traces, to the claim that this is the syntactic operation only and that it is exclusively supported by Broca' s region. Three arguments plead against this move. First. many Broca patien ts have no damage to Broca's area. Second, it is not only passive, but also active jabberwocky sentences that activate the frontal operculum in a judg ment task. Third, the same area is involved in a phrase-building production task that does not require tense processing.