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 Child
Broadcast 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 Talk
Introductory 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 Verbal Behavior
Noam 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
How Brains Think
Online 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
Chih-Hao Tsai's Research Page
General overviews and references on the subjects of language processing, the mental lexicon and language processing in Chinese.
http://research.chtsai.org/
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