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.

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 293: 88 (Jan or Sept?) 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

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.

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 [JPEG version]