Reading list
General
Lenneberg, E. H. (1967) Biological Foundations of Language. New York: John Wiley.
Newmeyer, F. J., ed. (1988) Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey.
Volume
III. Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects. Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press.
1. Language as animal communication
Coleman, J. S. (2005) Design
features of language. In K. Brown (ed) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Second
edition). Elsevier. 471-5.
Electronically available within Oxford via OxLip+. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080448541
Demers, R. A. (1988) Linguistics and animal communication. In Newmeyer (1988), 314-335.
Dingwall, W. O. (1988) The evolution of human communicative behavior. In Newmeyer (1988), 274-313.
Hockett, C. F. (1960) The origin of speech. Scientific American 203 (3),
88-96 (September). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0960-88. Reprinted in Human communication: language and
its
psychobiological bases: readings from Scientific American. San
Francisco:
W. H. Freeman and Co. 5-12.
Pepperberg, I. M. (1998) Talking with Alex: logic and speech in parrots. Scientific American presents: Exploring Intelligence. Vol. 9 (4). 60-65.
Yu, A. C. and D. Margoliash (1996) Temporal hierarchical control of
singing in birds. Science 273, 1871-1875.
2. Speaking and hearing
Caramazza, A., D. Chialant, R. Capasso and G. Miceli (2000) Separable processing of consonants and vowels. Nature 403, 428-430.
Deacon, T. W. (1997) The Symbolic Species. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Especially chapters 8-10.
Beeman, M. J. and C. Chiarello (1998) Complementary right- and
left-hemisphere
language comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science
7
(1), 2-8.
3. Words
Price, C., P. Indefrey and M. van Turennout (1999) The neural architecture underlying the processing of written and spoken word forms. In C. M. Brown and P. Hagoort, eds. The Neurocognition of Language. Oxford University Press. 211-233.
Pulvermüller, F. (1999) Words in the brain's language. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 22, 253-279. [LONG]
Dogil, G., H. Ackermann, W. Grodd, H. Haider, H. Kamp, J. Mayer, A.
Riecker, and D. Wildgruber (2001) The speaking brain: a tutorial
introduction
to fMRI experiments in the production of speech, prosody and syntax. Journal
of Neurolinguistics 15, 59-90.
4. Syntax
Allen, J. and M. S. Seidenberg (1999) The emergence of grammaticality in connectionist networks. In B. MacWhinney, ed. The Emergence of Language. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 115-151.
Hagoort, P., C. M. Brown and L. Osterhout (1999) The neurocognition of syntactic processing. In C. M. Brown and P. Hagoort, eds. The Neurocognition of Language. Oxford University Press. 273-316.
Holy, T. E. and Z. Guo (2005) Ultrasonic songs of male mice. PLoS Biology, 3 (12), e386. 2177-2186.
Just, M. A., P. A. Carpenter, T. A. Keller, W. F. Eddy, and K. R. Thulborn (1996) Brain activation modulated by sentence comprehension. Science 274, 114-116.
Kim,
K. H. S., N. R. Relkin, K.-M. Lee and J. Hirsch (1997) Distinct
cortical
areas associated with native and second languages. Nature 388,
171-174
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Okanoya, K.
(2004) The Bengalese Finch: A Window on the Behavioral Neurobiology of
Birdsong Syntax. Annals of the New
York Academy of Sciences 1016,
724-735.
Parker, A. R. (2006) Evolving the narrow language faculty: was
recursion the pivotal step? Paper presented at Evolution of Language, Sixth
International Conference, Rome, 12-15 April 2006. http://www.tech.plymouth.ac.uk/socce/evolang6/parker.doc