Naomi Chase Interviews Noam Chomsky from ZNet, April, 1992. A good, brief, interview where Chomsky describes the foundation of his approach to the study of language and innate mechanisms or properties.
Brain Evolution and Neurolinguistic Preconditions by Wendy K. Wilkins and Jennie Wakefield, 1995, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18 (1):161-226. Link is to preprint.
Building Blocks of Talk by B. Bower, 2000, Science News, 157 (22):344. Link is to article, further references available online.
Co-evolution of Neocortex Size, Group Size, and Language in Humans by R. I. M. Dunbar, 1993, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16 (4):681-735. Link is to preprint, Introduction and Discussion on reserve.
Hand Signals by Peter F. MacNeilage, Michael G. Studdert-Kennedy and Bjorn Lindblom, 1993, The Sciences, 33 (1):32-37. Article on reserve.
Innateness, Evolution, and Genetics of Language by Jennifer Ganger and Karin Stromswold, 1998, Human Biology, 70 (2):199(15). Link is to reference via Penfield Library Expanded Academic ASAP search.
Natural Language and Natural Selection by Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom, 1990, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13 (4): 707-784. Link is to preprint.
On the origin of internal structure of word forms by P. F. MacNeilage and B. L. Davis, 2000, Science, 288:527-531. A draft of a longer version is The Frame/Content Theory of Evolution of Speech Production by Peter F. MacNeilage to be published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
How the Brain Evolved Language by Donald Loritz, 1999, Oxford University Press, New York.
In Search of the First Language by Nova, WGBH, 1997 (videocassette). Transcript.
Psychological Explanation by Jerry A. Fodor, 1968, Random House, New York
Vision by David Marr, 1982, W. H. Freemann and Company, San Francisco.
Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, 2000, MIT Press.
The Minimalist Program by Noam Chomsky, 1995, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky, 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information by George A. Miller, 1956, The Psychological Review, 63:81-97.
Remembering by F. C. Bartlett, 1932, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Language, Thought, and Reality by B. L. Whorf, 1956, MIT Press, Boston.
Sapir-Whorf and What to Tell Students These Days by Dan Moonhawk Alford, 1995, Linguist List, 6-1149, August 22, 1995.
What is Lojban? by Robert LeChevalier. Logban is a version of Loglan, a language designed to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
The Function of Language Classifications in Behavior by John B. Carroll and Joseph B. Casagrande, in Readings in Social Psychology, 3rd Edition, 1958, editted by Maccoby, Newcomb, & Hartley, Holt & Co., New York. (on reserve)
The Role of Letter Recognition in Word Recognition by Michael J. Cosky, 1976, Memory & Cognition, 4 (2):207-214.
Accessing the Mental Lexicon by Kenneth I. Forster, 1976, New Approaches to Language Mechanisms (Wales and Walker, Eds.), North Holland, Amsterdam, 257-287.
Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension by David Caplan and Gloria S. Waters, 1998, Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Link is to preprint.
What is Meant by "Discourse Analysis"? by Stef Slembrouck, 2000.
Genie: An Abused Child's Fight from Silence by Russ Rymer, 1993, Harper Collins, New York.
A Silent Childhood by Russ Rymer, 1992, The New Yorker, April 13, 1992: 41-81 and April 20, 1992: 43-77.
Secret of the Wild Child by Nova, WGBH, 1994 (videocassette, based on the Rymer articles above). Transcript.
Accents are Forever by Edwin Kiester, Jr., 2001, The Smithsonian, January, 2001.
Parallel Learning Curves of an Infant in Vocabulary and in Voluntary Control of the Bladder by Clark L. Hull and Bertha Iutzi Hull, 1919, Pedagogical Seminary (Journal of Genetic Psychology), 26:272-283.
On the Biological Foundations of Human Language by Laura-Ann Petitto, 2000, in The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology in Honor of Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima (Emmorey and Lane, Eds.), LEA, Mahwah, N.J., 447-471.
Language-related Cortex in Deaf Individuals: Functional Specialization for Language or Perceptual Plasticity? by David Caplan, 2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97 (25):13476-13477.
A Nommocnu Impairment by Stuart Sutherland, 1990, Nature, 346:217-218.
Spatial Representation of Words in the Brain Implied by Studies of a Unilateral Neglect Patient by Alfonso Caramazza and Argye E. Hillis, 1990, Nature, 346:267-269.
Activation of Extrastriate and Frontal Cortical Areas by Visual Words and Word-Like Stimuli by S. E. Petersen, P. T. Fox, A. Z. Snyder, and M. E. Raichle, 1990, Science, 249:1041-1044.
The Alex Foundation, Dr. Irene Pepperberg's work with Alex and other African Grey Parrots.
Communications with Parrots, an earlier web site documenting Alex and Dr. Pepperberg.
The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots by Irene Maxine Pepperberg, 1999, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Can an Ape Create a Sentence? by H. S. Terrace, L. A. Petitto, R. J. Sanders and T. G. Bever, 1979, Science, 206 (4421):891-206.
Signing Behavior in Apes: A Critical Review by Mark S. Seidenberg and Laura A. Petitto, 1979, Cognition, 7:177-215.
"Gavagai!" or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy by David Premack, 1985, Cognition, 19:207-296.
Comprehension of Sentences by Bottlenosed Dolphins by Louis M. Herman, Douglas G. Richards and James P. Wolz, 1984, Cognition, 16:129-219.
Symbolic Communication Between Two Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Duane M. Rumbaugh, and Sally Boysen, 1978, Science, 201:641-644.
Chimp to Chimp, Time magazine, August 28, 1978:61.
Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons (Columba Livia Domestica) by Robert Epstein, Robert P. Lanza and B. F. Skinner, 1980, Science, 207:543-545.