General
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Speech and written language perception
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Sentence processing
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Language processing
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Language acquisition
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Second language acquisition
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acquire language despite a limited linguistic environment.
Lane, H. (1976). The wild boy of Aveyron. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
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including detailed transcripts of the scientific and medical analyses
at the time.
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language.
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Neurolinguistics and evolution of language
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Language and thought
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reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Cambridge:
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Pullum, G. K. (1991). The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax and other
irreverent essays on the study of language. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/
An ASL browser that enables students to select from a large
sample of words and then watch a brief video that shows the
corresponding ASL sign.
http://www.ling.umu.se/~rand/Kat/Per/Index.eng.html
This Web site includes a good demonstration of categorical
perception. Participants receive both discrimination and
labelling functions at the end of the study.
http://faculty.washington.edu/pkkuhl/pkkresearch.htm
This Web site, by Patricia Kuhl, contains an excellent
demonstration of the McGurk effect.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~wlangsto/MySoft.html
Phonemic restoration demonstration developed by William
Langston of Middle Tennesee State University.