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Useful Weblinks
Linguistics & Psychology
The study of children's language development involves many
areas of linguistics and psychology. The following links contain
useful sources of general background information on these fields
as well as some more advanced treatments.
The Linguistic Society of America site has a Resources section
with a series of links to other linguistics websites and an About
Linguistics section with introductory articles on several areas
of linguistics written by distinguished researchers in the field
as well as an 'Ask-A-Linguist' feature, where anyone interested
in language or linguistics can ask a question and get the response
of a panel of professional linguists.
http://www.lsadc.org/
The Jean Piaget Society has a page of links to sites on cognitive
and developmental psychology, plus information about Jean Piaget
himself.
http://www.piaget.org/
The B.F. Skinner Foundation has information about Skinner and
his behaviorist theory of psychology, as well as a bibliography
of his books and articles.
http://www.bfskinner.org/
A Glossary of Terms in Behaviorist Psychology from the University
of Iowa
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/wasserman/Glossary/index%20set.html
Noam Chomsky's official website has several online articles and
interviews available from his early work on language acquisition
theory including: 'Review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior' (1967);
'The Case Against B.F. Skinner' (1971); 'Language Development, Human
Intelligence, and Social Organization' (1978); 'Language, Language
Development and Reading' (1987).
http://www.chomsky.info
Chomsky's web page at MIT has an extensive bibliography of his
writings in linguistics.
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html
Professor Richard Hudson's page on Educational Linguistics is
a rich resource for both students and teachers.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/education.htm
CogPrints is an electronic archive for advanced level papers in
Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics. Particularly useful are these
sections:
Psycholinguistics http://cogprints.org/view/subjects/psy-ling.html
Developmental Psychology http://cogprints.org/view/subjects/dev-psy.html
Talkin' About Talk has an archive of over 20 Real Audio files of
programmes in the 'Talkin' About Talk' series. The series, part
of the 2005: The Year of Languages celebration, is designed to encourage
language study and invite listeners to look further into the subject
of each essay. The material was written by a wide-ranging group
of experts, including some of the most well-known linguists in America.
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3963
Language, Modality and the Brain. A collection of research papers
in PDF format from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, headed
by Dr. Karen Emmorey and Dr. Ursula Bellugi. The papers look at
language across different modalities, and focus primarily on (ASL)
sign language.
http://www.lcn.salk.edu/lm/pubs.php
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