Spoken Language: Humans and Related
Articles
- Broca's and Wernicke's Areas
- Brain structures associated with language processing.
- Innateness, Autonomy, Universality? Neurobiological Approaches to Language.
- How children acquire
language. See also "The Sounds of Language".
- OK Maxwell: Where's the
spaces between the words?
- New Insights Into How
Babies Learn Language: Read the Science article here. Listen to the
National Public Radio broadcast here.
The full article can be read here.
- Conversations with Neil's Brain. Read
chapters 3, and 14.
- Interview with Noam Chomsky. Read it here.
- Grammer's Secret Skeleton.
- The Origin of Language: The General Problem. Read all about it.
- Lingua ex machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky
with the human brain. You may read the whole text here. Individual chapters you must read
are: Stage Setting, Protolanguage Emerging, and
Darwin and Chomsky Together
at Last.
- Science Friday interview on "Genes for Speaking
and Grammar". Listen to the Real Audio program. Note: The first part is devoted
to the energy crisis (you don't have to listen to that; pull the slider up to about 26
minutes to skip over the initial portion of the program). Click here if you don't understand how to
avoid the first part of the interview.
- Language
Acquisition. Covers the evolution and biology of language.
- Abstract: Evidence for a
Grammer-Specific Deficit in Children. Another argument for the innate nature of language.
- Anthropology: No Last Word on Language Origins.
- The Evolution, Acquisition, and Use of
Language. Read
it!
- Learning
language. More links here.
- Speech Recognition and Sensory Integration.
- Did bigger brains for throwing accuracy
jump-start language? Read the synopsis here,
the full article here.
- Corticocortical Coherence and Universal Grammar.
- Language Gene Found (FOXP2)
- Making
Sense of Sentences
- The Bilingual
Brain
- Read
"Children Creating Core
Properties of Language..." in
Secret
Readings