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Chih-Hao Tsai's Research Page - http://www.geocities.com/hao520/research/
General overviews and references on the subjects of language processing, the mental lexicon and language processing in Chinese. |
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Can Chimps Talk? - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/chimps.html
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. |
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A Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior - http://monkeyfist.com/ChomskyArchive/linguistics/skinner2_html
Noam Chomsky's much cited review (1959) of the ultimate behaviorist work on language. Includes the introduction to the 1967 reprint. |
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Mama Teached Me Talk - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/acquisition.html
Introductory essay by Robert Beard on the tacit nature of first language acquistion. |
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Genie, Secret of the Wild Child - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2112gchild.html
Broadcast transcript about a girl who grew up without exposure to language until she was 13 years old. |