Reading for Semester 2 week 4
Language acquisition
1. Chomsky, N. (1967). A review of B.F.
Skinner's Verbal Behaviour by Noam Chomsky. In Jakobovits. L.A.
and Miron, M. S. (eds.),
Readings in the Psychology of Language, Prentice-Hall, 1967, pp. 142-143
Available at:
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967----.htm accessed 10th February 2010
2.
Skinner, B. F. (1957), Verbal Behavior, Acton, Massachusetts: Copley Publishing Group.
An overview of this book is provided on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_Behavior_(book) accessed 10th February 2010
3.
Hathcock, D. (2000), Wittgenstein, Behaviorism, and Language Acquisition,
Paper presented at the
Drury University 2000 Interdisciplinary R
esearch Conference
Available at: http://www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?ID=2452&NLID=166 accessed 10th February 2010
Read the section on Behaviorism (skip Wittgenstein).
4. Fernald, A. & McRoberts, G. W. (1995). Prosodic bootstrapping: A
critical analysis of the argument and the evidence. In: J. L. Morgan
& C. Demuth (Eds.),
Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from
Speech to Syntax in Early Acquisition. pages 365 - 385. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
Available at Edinburgh University Library
5. Gordon, P. (1990) Learnability and feedback,
Developmental Psychology. Vol 26 (2), Mar 1990, Pages 217-220
Available at Edinburgh University
6. Cook, V. J. (1985) Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Second Language Learning,
Applied Linguistics 1985 6: pp 2-18
Available at:
http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol6/issue1/ accessed 10th February 2010
7. Tomasello, M., Call, J. and Gluckman, A. (1997)
Comprehension of Novel Communicative Signs by Apes and Human Children,
Child Development, Volume 68, Number 6, Pages 1067-1080, December 1997
Available at
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1132292 accessed 10th February 2010
