The cerebellum, traditionally associated with motor control, has long been considered a secondary player in cognitive processing. However, decades of research have now highlighted the cerebellum's crucial role in higher-order cognitive functions. Among these, the cerebellum is consistently implicated in language — both motor components such as articulation and nonmotor aspects of language such as semantics. Here, we explore and review evidence on the cerebellum's contribution to language, with a focus on elucidating the functional organization of language in the human cerebellum. We discuss the potential implications of these findings for typical and atypical developmental processes that affect language.

小脑传统上与运动控制相关，长期以来一直被认为是认知处理中的次要角色。然而，几十年的研究现在强调了小脑在高阶认知功能中的关键作用。其中，小脑始终与语言有关——包括发音等运动部分和语义等语言非运动部分。在这里，我们探索和回顾小脑对语言贡献的证据，重点是阐明人类小脑中语言的功能组织。我们讨论这些发现对影响语言的典型和非典型发展过程的潜在影响。