Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 781-786 , June 2010

Language dominance, handedness and sex: Recessive X-linkage theory and test

  • Gregory V. Jones

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
    • ,
  • Maryanne Martin

      Affiliations

    • University of Oxford, UK

Received 3 July 2008 ,Revised 5 April 2009 ,Accepted 20 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.07.009

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