Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics Links

• Psycholinguistics Resources Introductory resources to supplement a course taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
  
• 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.
  
• The Psychology of Language Page of Links Maintained by Roger Kreuz at the University of Memphis. Over 400 links.
  
• Interspecies Communication Society engaged in efforts to communicate with higher level, nonhumans such as whales and dolphins.
  
• AlphaLearning Institute An institute with the purpose of "helping smart people become smarter."
  
• The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification society that oversees neurolinguistic programming training programs and their services.
  
• But What Have You Done for Us Lately? Article by C. D. Green and J. Vervaeke, subtitled `Some Recent Perspectives on Linguistic Nativism'.
  
• Brain and Language Journal A scholarly journal dealing with many aspects of the mind and language. Related topics include neurology, psychiatry, and even computer science.
  
• Bilingualism Database A database detailing psycholinguistics, and bilingualism, journal and book references for researchers.
  
• Mama Teached Me Talk Introductory essay by Robert Beard on the tacit nature of first language acquistion.
  
• SUNY at Buffalo: Psycholinguistics Laboratory Describes the research, personnel, publications and facilities of the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the University at Buffalo.
  
• 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.
  
• Three Cognitive Theories Article by Bilyana Martinovsky comparing the cognitive theories of language of Jackendoff, Langacker and Talmy.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Glot-Bot A linguistic bot using genetic algorithms to recreate the English language.
  
• 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.
  
• Hopi and Turkish "babyfood"? Supplies the answer with an essay detailing why it is the most-universally-understood word on Earth.
  
• Psycholinguistics Errors Page maintained by Yehouda Harpaz which argues that the study of psycholinguistics is riddled with question-begging argumentation.
  
• Metaphor Generating and delivering stories that change people and some words about NLP
  
• Language and Brain Introduction to neurolinguistics by Stephen Crain, discussing nativism and modularity.
  
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Research homepage describing the institute's activities.
  
• Handedness and Brain Lateralization Introductory text which discusses relationships between brain lateralization, handedness and the identification of functional areas of the brain used in language.