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• Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Cognitive  (318)

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Bilingualism and Neurolinguistics Database - Some references to research on Bilingualism and Neurolinguistics. Brain and Language Laboratory at the University of Georgetown - Lab with a focus on the neural bases of language. Their research suggests that vocabulary and grammar are associated with declarative and procedural memory systems. But What Have You Done for Us Lately? - Article by C. D. Green and J. Vervaeke, subtitled `Some Recent Perspectives on Linguistic Nativism'. 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. Chih-Hao Tsai's Research Page - Chih-Hao Tsai's research works on cognitive science, mostly pertinent to language processing, with specific emphasis on Chinese language processing. Cognitive Models of Auditory Word Recognition - Summarizes existing cognitive models of speech perception and auditory word recognition. Provides key architectural features of each model, glossary of terminology, and relevant references to original source work. Equial, Language Acquisition Research Team - Spanish research team at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, working on the adaptation of the MacArthur CDI's to Spanish. Language and Brain - Introduction to neurolinguistics by Stephen Crain, discussing nativism and modularity. Lingua ex Machina - Online edition of a book which records a debate between William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, concerned with situating the language faculty within an evolutionary model of human psychology developed by Calvin. Mama Teached Me Talk - Introductory essay by Robert Beard on the tacit nature of first language acquistion. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen - Research homepage describing the institute's activities. Neurolinguistics - Introduction to neurolinguistics by Lise Menn, talking about the location of language function in the brain and what aphasia and dyslexia tell us about brain function. Prolegomena to a Theory of Communicative Competence - Online text of the 1969 book by Leon James, which is concerned with the implications for psychology of Chomsky's distinction between competence and performance. Psycholinguistics Resources - Introductory resources to supplement a course taught at the University of Texas at Austin. The Psychology of Language Page of Links - Maintained by Roger Kreuz at the University of Memphis. Over 400 links. 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. Secret of the Wild Child - Transcript of a Nova broadcast about `Genie', a girl who grew up without exposure to language, due to an abused childhood. The story focusses upon her late acquistion of language at age 13. Speech, Gestures and Motion Events - Research program investigating the relation between children's spatial gestures and language specific semantic distinctions between Turkish, English and Japanese. SUNY at Buffalo: Psycholinguistics Laboratory - Describes the research, personnel, publications and facilities of the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the University at Buffalo. Three Cognitive Theories - Article by Bilyana Martinovsky comparing the cognitive theories of language of Jackendoff, Langacker and Talmy.

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