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Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics

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Language theories and Papers

Evolution, Innateness, etc.

Origins of Language Group: At the artificial intelligence laboratory of the VUB; an anti-innateness hypothesis.
Language and the Primate Brain
Innateness, Autonomy, Universality? Language: Addresses the innateness issue of human language in terms of neurobiology. (Should have some neurobiological background before reading.)
Evolution....Language in Humans
Innate Talents: Reality or Myth?: Incl. commentary on language.
Theory of Evolution of Speech Production
Brain Evolution and Neurolinguistic Preconditions: Another paper on language precondition (innateness) in terms of neurobiology.
Language and Evolution: List of papers by Robin Allott: Language and Evolution. Cross-listed; online papers relating evolutionary aspects of language (including a nonPinker article). Includes papers on evolutionary biology and gestural equivalence of language.
Classified Abstracts: Cognitive science and psychology: 3.6 Language. Abstracts, posters...
Paleopsychology: And evolution...
On the Recent Origin of Language

Acquisition, Language Development, and Multilingualism

Second Language Acquisition
Bilingualism..
Bilingual Memory
How do infants learn language?: (Also hotlinked from Dr.Saffran's faculty page.)
Rapid Word Learning by 15-Month-Olds
Development in a Connectionist Framework: Rethinking the Nature-Nurture Debate
In Search of the Statistical Brain (speech)
PDP Learnability and Innate Knowledge of Language (yes)
Learning to Recognize and Produce Words: Towards a Connectionist Model
The Segmentation Problem in Early Language Acquisition
Theories of Language Development: The way in which children acquire language is the premise of this paper/site.
Constraints on Word Learning: Speculations about their nature, origins, and domain specificity. Paper by Ellen M. Markman @ Stanford.
Early Language Acquisition in Humans: A Review of the Babbling Literature
Modularity, Domain Specificity, and the Development of Language
Language Identification in Multilingual Systems: Automatic Language Identification (Language ID) is the problem of identifying the language being spoken from a sample of speech by an unknown speaker [1]. The human is by far the best language ID system in operation today. If somebody knows the language being spoken, they are able to positively identify it within a few seconds. If they don't know the language, they can often make subjective 'sounds like French'-type statements. .....
Infant Dual Language Acquisition Revisited: The influx of refugees and immigrants into the U.S. and other countries during the twentieth century has given rise to an urgent need for dependable qualitative research in infant bilingualism.....

More Language Theories, Models, Process/Production, Controversies....

Feeling Tongue-tied?
Williams Syndrome and Music
Williams Syndrome and Cognitive Grammar
A Theory of Lexical Access in Speech Production
Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension
The Semiotic Alphabet: "Machine emulation of human sentient computing would require both local and non-local access to binding networks of semiotic languages in the brain." Does left hemisphere produce sentience? Does cognition=language?
Babbling in the Manual Mode: Evidence for the Ontogeny of Language
AI, CogSci and Robotics: Cognitive Science, Psychology, Linguistics
Animal models of speech perception phenomenon: From the U/WI-Mad Speech perception Lab.
on Fodor: A short handout on Fodor and the Language of Thought hypothesis at Indiana University (South Bend).
Applied Linguistics: "Applied linguistics has a number of areas of concern. Among them are the teaching of language, the learning environment, the psychology of language, the preparation of grammars and dictionaries, the study of specialized languages, and language rehabilitation." An introductory essay.
NewsHour Online: Can Chimps Talk?
LANGUAGE ORIGINS SOCIETY: Includes links to on-line papers.
COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION PART I: The Naturalness of Sign Language
Could Bonzo go to College?: (chimp language, cognition, etc)
Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute

Linguistics, Resources, Journals...

Sociolinguistics
Lexicon of Linguistics: A glossary of linguistical terms.
Psychology of Language Links: Big list of psycholinguistics resources from researchers to journals to books.
Linguistics Journals: Courtesy of the Linguist List.
Obscure languages: Less commonly taught language resources @ the U/MN.
Language: Lecture outlines containing hotlinks to examples, paper and experimental results, theoretical models in linguistics.
Gender-free pronoun FAQ: Re: English and the problem of gendered pronouns in respect to social idiosyncrasies.
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Neuro*

A History of Neuroscience

Structure, Neuroimaging, Function..

Basic Cortical Structure and Function
Neuroimaging of Language Production
On Neuroimaging
Neuroimaging of Lang. (Words)
An outline of laterality
Reading and the Brain

Linguistic Deficits, Terms

Dictionary of Biopsychology: Glossary of biopsychological terms.
EJ's Quick Reference Guide to Spoken Language Disorders: In a glossary format.
EJ's Quick Reference Guide to Reading and Writing Language Disorders: (ditto)
Behavioral Neurology: Lesional syndromes, including aphasias (semi-glossary format).
Langbrain Mailing List: Index of mailing list threads related to language and the brain (various opinions); from the Langbrain list.

Neuroanatomy

The Digital Anatomist: great 3d computerized structures, MRI scans, coronal/horizontal slices, etc. of the human brain. includes "quiz" option, outline option, complete labels, and "customize" label URL option. ...! (good for students taking a neurosci course)
The Whole Brain Atlas: More general neuroanatomy. Courtesy of Harvard Med; MRI atlas of the brain, normal and abnormal (lesions, diseases). Some time-lapse movies.

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Specific Languages, Resources

Lexicons/Dictionaries, Useful Links

Online Dictionaries: With a massive assortment of foreign languages as well.
I, Rearrangement Servant: Not really related, but it's still fun! (anagrams.)
Research-It: A great, all-around language tool (dictionary, rhyme dictionary for poets, thesaurus, translation of words into almost any language....).
: Chinese character genealogy/dictionary, frames required. Impressive; searchable via bopomofo, radicals, number of strokes, pinyin, english translation; includes the actual tree of searched character. No Chinese viewer necessary!
The Grammarlady: English grammar. (and ask questions)
Languages and Linguistics: This area holds works on language, linguistic theory and structural linguistics.
Linguist List Topics: Applied Linguistics, Creoles, Computational Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Word Frequency, Linguist Laws and Theories, Primates, Semiotics, Speech, etc.etc....
Linguist List Dissertation Abstracts
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Internet resources.
Brain & Mind Magazine index.

Artificial, Specific, and Dead Languages

Bibliography of Planned Languages: Compiled by Richard K. Harrison.
Cross-references: Artificial Languages: Artificial language servers and archives, including Esperanto and Klingon.
A survey of the artificial language Tlhingan Hol: From creation to creativity -- A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts.
Thesis on the Klingon language by Teresa Lynn Wells for all you Trekkies and pro-Trekkers, located at the Klingon Language Institute server. (Don't read unless you have experience in linguistics!)
A Bonus Klingon file: Here is a bonus (free) intro file on the Klingon language.
Language and Language Family information: Also courtesy of the Linguist List. Broader list of links from artificial to dead languages.
Humanities Servers, Links: Including languages and linguistics.
Collaborative database...: Click on alphabetical or invented language indices for backgrounds of many, many languages. Includes audio samples, etc....

Tools

The Simtel.Net MS-DOS Collection: Software for linguists, e.g. translators.
Linguistic Tools: Software and fonts for linguists.

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General Links, Psychology

Search

PsychCrawler: From the American Psychological Association. Search for psychological subjects on this search form.
Indexing & Abstracting Databases: Electronic Library resources at the Wisconsin Library system. Includes Academic Search FullTEXT, PsycLit.
: Search the web with the most advanced and powerful search engine to date with over 100mil links in its database. Use boolean for more accurate searches. (If AltaVista can't find it, it probably doesn't exist.)

APA format, style, citing

Internet Citation Guides: Right here at the UW, Memorial Library. Includes APA, MLA guidelines for citing online references, and a link for APA print style.
Strunk's Elements of Style: (the original--but timeless.)
Publication Manual APA...: - Fourth Edition, pp. 218-222. Very short reference for citing various online resources.

Misc

University Microfilms International: UMI supplies educational/academic materials to scientists, researchers, students. E.g., if you need an article from an esoteric journal, you can order it directly from UMI; dissertations are also available. [Go to the Infostore for articles]
Java Applets for Stats: Distributions, probability, stats, examples. Includes link below.
Online Java Applet: ANOVA: Do online ANOVA stats with this Java applet. Requires a Java-enabled browser.
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