How Brains ThinkOnline text of a book by W. H. Calvin. Outlines his view of the evolution of higher cognitive functions and the circuitry that supports them in the neocortex, drawing on anthropology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, and the neurosciences. http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/bk8 |
Three cognitive theories: majorPaper (Bilyana Martinovski, 1995) comparing the cognitive theories of language of Jackendoff, Langacker and Talmy. http://www.ling.gu.se/~biljana/st1-97/cogn.html |
Chih-Hao Tsai`s Research PageGeneral overviews and references on the subjects of language processing, the mental lexicon and language processing in Chinese. http://research.chtsai.org |
Can Chimps Talk?Introductory essay by Robert Beard discussing animal language studies and their implications for nativism, the doctrine that humans possess a specialised faculty for language acquisition. http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/chimps.html |
Genie, Secret of the Wild ChildBroadcast transcript about a girl who grew up without exposure to language until she was 13 years old. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2112gchild.html |
Mama Teached Me TalkIntroductory essay by Robert Beard on the tacit nature of first language acquistion. http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/acquisition.html |
A Review of B.F. Skinner`s VerbalNoam Chomsky`s much cited review (1959) of the ultimate behaviorist work on language. Includes the introduction to the 1967 reprint. http://monkeyfist.com/chomskyarchive/linguistics/skinner2_html |