Biolinguistics reading list
Animal communication
Cheney, D. L., and Seyfarth, R. M. (1998). Why animals don't have language. In G. Petersen
(Ed.), The Tanner lectures on human values (Vol. 19). Salt Lake City : University of Utah
Language evolution
Pinker, S., and Bloom, P. (1990). Natural-language and natural-selection. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 13, 707-726.
Dunbar, Robin. 1998. Of Brains and Groups and Evolution. In Grooming, Gossip and the
Evolution of Language. Harvard University
Pinker, S. 2003. Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche. In M. Christiansen and S. Kirby
(Eds.), Language evolution: States of the art. New York : Oxford University
Agger, William A., Timothy L McAndrews, John A Hlaudy. 2004. On Toothpicking in Early
Hominids. Current Anthropology 45:33, 403-404.
Aaron, P. G., R. Malatesha Joshi. 2006. Written Language is as Natural as Spoken Language: A
Biolinguistic Perspective. Reading Psychology, 27:263–311.
Lieberman, P. 2006. Toward an evolutionary biology of language. London
Hagen, L. Kirk. 2008. The Bilingual Brain: Human Evolution and Second Language
Acquisition. Evolutionary Psychology 6(1): 43-63.
Rosenberg, Jeremy. Richard J. Tunney. 2008. Human vocabulary use as display. Evolutionary
Psychology 6(3): 538-549.
Chang, Rosemarie Sokol, Nicholas S. Thompson. 2010. The Attention-Getting Capacity of
Whines and Child-Directed Speech. Evolutionary Psychology 8(2): 260-274.
Biolinguistics and structural linguistics
Chomsky, Noam. 2007. Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution.
International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 15(1), 1–21
Cognitive/neurolinguistics
Zhou, Xiaolin, Zheng Ye, Him Cheung and Hsuan-Chih Chen. 2009. Processing the Chinese
language: An ntroduction. LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES 24 (7/8), 929_946.
Kovelman, Ioulia, Stephanie A. Baker, and Laura-Ann Petitto. 2008. Bilingual and Monolingual
Brains Compared: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Syntactic Processing and a Possible ‘‘Neural Signature’’ of Bilingualism. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience vol. 20 no. 1.
Kovelman, I, Shalinsky, M.H., Berens, M.S. and Petitto, L-A. 2008. Shining new light on the
brain’s “Bilingual Signature:” A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy investigation of semantic processing. Neuroimage, 39(3): 1457–1471.
Kovelman, I. , Shalinsky, M.H., White, K.S., Schmitt S.N., Berens, M.S., Paymer, N., and Petitto,
L-A. 2009. Dual Language Use in Sign-Speech Bimodal Bilinguals: fNIRS Brain-Imaging Evidence. Brain Lang. 109(2-3): 112–123.
Language and genetics
Stromswold, K. 2001. The heritability of language: A review and meta-analysis of twin, adoption,
and linkage studies. Language, 77, 647-723.
