Some Notes towards a Dual Model of Language Development— The Computational System behind a Non-INFL stage of Child Language Acquisition Absent Minded: A Reply to Borer and Rohrbacher Joseph Galasso California State University—Northridge 2006 5/9 (A Working Paper Draft) In prep, full length paper UMass talk. Key Words: fMRI, brain imaging, morphological processing, inflection, non- inflectional stage, the dual mechanism model of language development, child language acquisition, Hagit Borer, Bernhard Rohrbacher Joseph Galasso California State University, Northridge Department of English 18111 Nordhoff Street Nothridge, Ca. 91330 e-mail: joseph.galasso@csun.edu phone: 1-818-677-3431