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Baker, M. C. (2001). The Atoms of Language: the Mind’s Hidden Rules of Grammar. New York: Basic Books.

Baker, M. C. (2003). ‘Linguistic Differences and Language Design’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7: 349-353.

Baker, M. C. (2003). Lexical Categories. Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

Baker, M. C. (2005). ‘Mapping the Terrain of Language Learning’, Language Learning and Language Development 1: 93-124.

Baker, M. C. (2008). The Syntax of Agreement and Concord. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Baker, M. C., and Collins, C. (2006). ‘Linkers and the Internal Structure of vP’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24: 307-354.

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Boeckx, C. (Forthcoming). ‘Elementary Syntactic Structures: Aspects of a Theory of Phases’, Ms., Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Boeckx, C. (Forthcoming). ‘The Character of Linguistic Variation’, Ms., ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Boeckx, C. 2009. ‘On the Nature of Merge’, in J. Uriagereka, M. Piattelli-Palmarini, and P. Salaburu (eds.) Of Minds and Language: The Basque Country Encounter with Noam Chomsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Boeckx, C. 2010. ‘Approaching Parameters From Below’. In A. M. Di Sciullo, and C. Boeckx (eds.), The Biolinguistic Enterprise: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Boeckx, C., and Grohmann, K. (2004). ‘Putting Phases into Perspective’, Ms., Harvard University, and University of Cyprus.

Boeckx, C., and Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (2005). ‘Language as a Natural Object, Linguistics as a Natural Science’, The Linguistic Review 22(2-4): 447–466.

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Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C., and Zucchi, S. (2006). ‘Strategies of Relativization in Italian Sign Language’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25: 945-975.

Chomsky, N. (1955). ‘The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory’. Ms., Harvard University, and MIT, Cambridge, MA. [Revised 1956 version published in part by Plenum, New York, 1975; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985].

Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.

Chomsky, N. (1959). ‘A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior’, Language 35(1): 26-58.

Chomsky, N. (1959). ‘On Certain Formal Properties of Grammars’, Information and Control 2: 137-167.

Chomsky, N. (1961). ‘On the Notion "Rule of Grammar"’, in R. Jakobson (ed.), Structure of Language and its Mathematical Aspects. Providence: American Mathematical Society, 6-24. [Reprinted in J. A. Fodor and J. J. Katz (eds.). (1964). The Structure of Language: Readings in the Philosophy of Language. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 119-136].

Chomsky, N. (1963). ‘Formal Properties of Grammars’, in R. D. Luce, R. R. Bush, and E. Galanter (eds.), Handbook of Mathematical Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 323-418.

Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chomsky, N. (1966). Cartesian Linguistics. New York: Harper and Row. [Third edition, with introduction by James McGilvray. (2009). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.]

Chomsky, N. (1970). ‘Remarks on Nominalization’, in R. A. Jacobs and P. S. Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in English Transformational Grammar. Waltham: Ginn, 184-221.

Chomsky, N. (1972). ‘Some Empirical Issues in the Theory of Transformational Grammar’, in P. S. Peters (eds.), Goals of Linguistic Theory. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 63-130.

Chomsky, N. (1972). Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Chomsky, N. (1975). Reflections on Language. New York: Pantheon.

Chomsky, N. (1976). ‘On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities’, in R. W. Rieber (ed.) The Neuropsychology of Language: Essays in Honor of Eric Lenneberg. New York: Plenum Press, 1-24.

Chomsky, N. (1977). ‘On Wh-movement’, in P. Culicover, T. Wasow, and A. Akmajian (eds.), Formal Syntax. New York: Academic Press, 71-132.

Chomsky, N. (1979). ‘The Pisa Lectures’. Ms., MIT.

Chomsky, N. (1980). Rules and Representations. New York: Columbia University Press.

Chomsky, N. (1981). Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Dordrecht: Foris.

Chomsky, N. (1986). Knowledge of Language. New York: Praeger.

Chomsky, N. (1990). ‘On Formalization and Formal Linguistics’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8: 143-147.

Chomsky, N. (1991). ‘Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation’, in R. Freidin (ed.), Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 417-454. [Reprinted in Chomsky, N. (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 129-166].

Chomsky, N. (1993). ‘A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory’, in K. Hale and S. J. Keyser (eds.) The View from Building 20, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-52.

Chomsky, N. (1994). ‘Bare Phrase Structure’, MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 5. [Reprinted in G. Webelhuth (ed.) (1995), Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program, Oxford: Blackwell, 383-439.]

Chomsky, N. (1995). The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chomsky, N. (1998). ‘Some Observations on Economy in Generative Grammar’, in P. Barbosa, D. Fox, M. McGinnis, and D. Pesetsky (eds) Is the Best Good Enough? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 115-129.

Chomsky, N. (2000). ‘Minimalist Inquiries: the Framework’, in R. Martin, D. Michaels, and J. Uriagereka (eds.), Step by Step: Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 89-155.

Chomsky, N. (2000). New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Chomsky, N. (2001). ‘Derivation by Phase’, in M. Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale. A Life in Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-52.

Chomsky, N. (2002). On Nature and Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Chomsky, N. (2004). ‘Beyond Explanatory Adequacy’, in A. Belletti (ed.), Structures and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 104-131.

Chomsky, N. (2004). The Generative Enterprise Revisited: Discussions with Riny Huybregts, Henk van Riemsdijk, Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Chomsky, N. (2005). ‘Three Factors in Language Design’, Linguistic Inquiry 36(1): 1-22.

Chomsky, N. (2007). ‘Approaching UG from below’, in U. Sauerland and M. Gaertner (eds.), Interfaces + Recursion = Language? Chomsky’s Minimalism and the View from Syntax-semantics. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-30.

Chomsky, N. (2007). ‘Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15(1): 1-21.

Chomsky, N. (2007). ‘Some Simple Evo-devo Theories about Language: How Might They Be True of Language?’, paper presented at the Conference on Language, Stony Brook University.

Chomsky, N. (2008). ‘On Phases’, in R. Freidin, C. Otero, and M.L. Zubizarreta (eds.), Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 133-166.

Chomsky, N., and Halle, M. (1968). The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper.

Chomsky, N., and Lasnik, H. (1993). ‘Principles and Parameters Theory’, in J. Jacobs, A. van Stechow, W. Sternefeld, and T. Vennemann (eds.), Syntax: an International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Chomsky, N., and Lasnik, H. (1993). ‘Principles and Parameters Theory’, in J. Jacobs, A. van Stechow, W. Sternefeld, and T. Vennemann (eds.), Syntax: an International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 506-569. [Reprinted in Chomsky, N. (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 13-127].

Chomsky, N., and Miller, G. A. (1963). ‘Finitary Models of Language Users’, in R. Luce, R. Bush, and E. Galanter (eds.), Handbook of Mathematical Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 419‑491.

Chomsky, N., and Miller, G. A. (1963). Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Natural Languages’, in Duncan R. Luce, Robert R. Bush, and Eugene Galanter (eds.), Handbook of Mathematical Psychology 2. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 269-321.

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Cinque, G. (1999). Adverbs and Functional Heads. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. New York : Oxford University Press.

Cinque, G. (2005). ‘Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions’, Linguistic Inquiry 36(3): 315-332.

Cinque, G. (2006) Restructuring and Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Collins, C. (2006). ‘A Note on Derivational Morphology’, Ms., New York University.

Collins, C. (2006). ‘Home Sweet Home’, Ms., New York University.

Culicover, P., and Jackendoff, R. (2005). Simpler Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Culicover, P., and Jackendoff, R. (2006). ‘The Simpler Syntax Hypothesis’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10: 413-418.

D’Alessandro, R., and Di Sciullo, A. M. (2009). Proper Subset Relation and Concord: Agreement in Abruzzese Possessive Copular Constructions. Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society 38.

D’Alessandro, R., and Roberts, I. (Forthcoming). ‘Past Participle Agreement in Abruzzese: Split Auxiliary Selection and the Null-subject Parameter’, Ms., Cambridge University

De Vincenzi, M. (1991). Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2000). ‘Parsing Asymmetries’, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing. London: Springer Verlag, 1-15.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2003). ‘Morphological Relations in Asymmetry Theory’, in A. M. Di Sciullo (ed.), Asymmetry in Grammar, Volume 1: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 9-36.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2004). ‘Morphological Phases’, in H.-J. Yoon (ed.), Generative Grammar in a Broader Perspective. The 4th GLOW in Asia 2003. Seoul: The Korean Generative Grammar Circle & Cognitive Science, 113-137.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2005) Asymmetry in Morphology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2007). ‘A Remark on Natural Language and Natural Language Processing from a Biolinguistic Perspective’, in H. Fujita, and D. Pisanelli (eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 126-144.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2009). ‘Why Are Compounds Part of Natural Languages: A View From Asymmetry Theory’, in R. Lieber, and P. Štekauer (eds.), Handbook of Compounds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145-177.

Di Sciullo, A. M. (2010). ‘A Biolinguistic Approach to Variation’, In A. M. Di Sciullo, and C. Boeckx (eds.), The Biolinguistic Entreprise: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Di Sciullo, A. M., Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Wexler, K., Berwick, C. R., Boeckx, C., Jenkins, L., Uriagereka, J., Stromswold K., Cheng, L., Harley, H., Wedel, A., McGilvray, J., van Gelderen, E., Bever, G. T. (2010). The Biological Nature of Human Language. in Biolinguistics Vol 4, No 1 (2010).

Di Sciullo, A. M., and Banksira, D. P. (2009). ‘On wh-words of Ethiopian Semitic Languages’, in C. Häbert (ed.) Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 245-255.

Di Sciullo, A. M., and Fong, S. (2005). ‘Morpho-Syntax Parsing’, in A. M. Di Sciullo (ed.), UG and External Systems. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 247-248.

Di Sciullo, A. M., and Isac, D. (2008). ‘Mouvement Chains at the Interfaces’, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Special Issue on Interfaces 53(2/3): 181-217.

Di Sciullo, A. M., and Isac, D. (2008). ‘The Asymmetry of Merge’, Biolinguistics 2(4): 260‑290. 

Di Sciullo, A. M., Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Hauser, M., Wexler, K., Berwick, R. C., Boeckx, C., Jenkins, L., Uriagereka, J., Stromswold, K., Cheng, L., Harley, H., Wedel, A., McGilvray, J., van Gelderen, E., and Bever, T. (Forthcoming). ‘The Biological Nature of Language’. Biolinguistics.

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HUMAN/ANIMAL STUDIES

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AVIAN STUDIES

Aronov, D., Andalman, A. S., and Fee, M. S. (2008). ‘A Specialized Forebrain Circuit for Vocal Babbling in the Juvenile Songbird’, Science 320(5876): 630-634.

Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Rivas, M., Zapka, M., Horita, H., Hara, E., Wada, K., Mouritsen, H. & Jarvis, E.D. (2008). ‘Molecular Mapping of Movement-Associated Areas in the Avian Brain: A Motor Theory for Vocal Learning Origin’, PLoS ONE 3(3): e1768. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001768.

Hailman, J. P., Ficken, M. S., and Ficken, R. W. (1985). ‘The "chick-a-dee" Calls of Parus Atricapillus: a Recombinant System of Animal Communication Compared with Written English’, Semiotica 56: 191-224.

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Horita, H., Wada, K., and Jarvis, E.D. (2008). ‘Early Onset of Deafening-induced Song Deterioration and Differential Requirements of the Pallial-basal Ganglia Vocal Pathway’, Eur. J. Neurosci. 28:2519-2532.

Jarvis, E.D. (2009). ‘Bird Song Systems: Evolution’, in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Squire LR (eds). volume 2, Oxford: Academic Press, 217-225.

Jarvis, E.D. (2009). ‘Bird Brain : Evolution’, in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Squire LR (eds). volume 2, Oxford: Academic Press, 209-215.

Jarvis, E.D. (2007). ‘Neural Systems for Vocal Learning in Birds and Humans: a Synopsis’, Journal of Ornithology 143: S35-44.

Jarvis, E.D. (2006). ‘Evolution of Vocal Learning Systems in Birds and Humans’, in J. Kaas (ed.), Evolution of Nervous Systems. Volume2. Boston: Academic Press, 213-228.

Jarvis, E.D. (2006). ‘Selection For and Against Vocal Learning in Birds and Mammals’, Ornithology Science 5: 5-14.

Jarvis, E.D. (2006). ‘Evolution of Brain Structures for Vocal Learning in Birds: a Synopsis’, Acta Zoologica Sinica 52: 85-89.

Jarvis, E.D. (2004). ‘Learned Birdsong and the Neurobiology of Human Language’, Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1016: 749-777.

Kubikova, L., Turner, E., and Jarvis, E.D. (2007). ‘The Pallial-basal Ganglia Pathway Modulates the Behaviorally-driven Gene Expression of the Motor Pathway’, European Journal of Neuroscience 25:2154-2160.

Liedvogel, M., Feenders, G., Wada, K., Troje, N.F., Jarvis, E.D., and Mouritsen, H. (2007). ‘Lateralized Activation of Cluster N in the Brains of Migratory Songbirds’, European Journal of Neuroscience 25:1166-1173.

Mello, C.V., and Jarvis, E.D. (2008). ‘Behavior-dependent Expression of Inducible Genes in Vocal Learning Birds’, in Ziegler and Marler (eds.), The Neuroscience of Birdsong, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 381-397.

Mouritsen, H., Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Wada, K., and Jarvis, E.D. (2005). ‘Night-vision Brain Area in Migratory Songbirds’, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102(23): 8339-8344.

Riener, A., Perkel, D.J., Mello, C.V., and Jarvis, E.D. (2008). ‘Songbirds and the Revised Avian Brain Nomenclature’, in Ziegler and Marler (eds.), The Neuroscience of Birdsong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 58-62.

Suthers, R. A. (2004). ‘Vocal Mechanisms in Birds and Bats: a Comparative View’, Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences 76(2): 247-252.

Teramitsu, I., and White, S. A. (2006). ‘FoxP2 Regulation During Undirected Singing in Adult Songbirds.’ The Journal of Neuroscience 26(28): 7390-7394.

Teramitsu, I., Kudo, L. C., London, S. E., Geschwind, D. H., and White, S. A. (2004). ‘Parallel FoxP1 and FoxP2 Expression in Songbird and Human Brain Predicts Functional Interaction’, Journal of Neuroscence 24: 3152-3163.

The Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium: E.D. Jarvis, O. Güntürkün, L. Bruce, A. Csillag, H. Karten, W. Kuenzel, L. Medina, G. Paxinos, D.J. Perkel, T. Shimizu, G. Striedter, J.M. Wild, G.F. Ball, J. Dugas-Ford, S.E. Durand, G.E. Hough, S. Husband, L. Kubikova, D.W. Lee, C.V. Mello, A. Powers, C. Siang, T.V. Smulders, K. Wada, S.A. White, K. Yamamoto, J. Yu, A. Reiner and A.B. Butler. (2005). ‘Avian Brains and a New Understanding of Vertebrate Evolution’, Nature Rev. Neurosc. 6: 151-159

Trevisan, M. A., Cooper, B., Goller, F., and Mindlin, G. B. (2007). ‘Lateralization as a Symmetry Breaking Process in Birdsong’, Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics) 75(3): 031908-5.

Wild, J. M. (1993). ‘The Avian Nucleus Retroambigualis: A Nucleus for Breathing, Singing and Calling’, Brain Research 606: 119-124.

Woolley, S., and Doupe, A. J. (2008). ‘Social Context–Induced Song Variation Affects Female Behavior and Gene Expression’, PLoS Biology 6(3): e62 1-13.

BIO PHYSICS

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