Rice University
Linguistics 411, Neurolinguistics
Readings in Neurolinguistics, 2010
The assigned readings are in the course packet, available from
Rita Riley, linguistics department coordinator, in 212 Herring Hall.
1. Lamb, Sydney, Being Scientific, Being Realistic.
2. Lamb, Sydney, Introducing the Brain. Chapter 16 of Pathways
of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language. Amsterdam &
Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999
3. Benson, D. Frank and Alfredo Ardila, Historical Background.
Chapter 2 of Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective. New York & Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996.
4. Goodglass, Harold, Disorders of Repetition. Chapter 8 of
Understanding Aphasia. San Diego: Academic Press, 1993.
5. Damasio, Antonio, Signs of Aphasia. Chapter 2 of Acquired
Aphasia (ed. Martha Taylor Sarno), 3rd edition,. Academic Press,
1998.
6. Goodglass, Harold, Cerebral Dominance and Laterality. Pages
55-60 of Understanding Aphasia. San Diego: Academic Press, 1993.
7. Damasio, Hannah, Neuroanatomical Correlates of the Aphasias.
Chapter 3 of Acquired Aphasia (Ed. Martha Taylor Sarno). San Diego:
Academic Press, 1998.
8. Goodglass, Harold, Disorders of Syntax and Morphology.
Chapter 6 of Understanding Aphasia. San Diego: Academic Press,
1993.
9. Cherchi, Marcello. Investigation of the Brain under Non-
pathological Conditions. Section 3 of Challenges in the
Investigation of Cerebral Function: Neuroanatomical Substrates of Language
Processing. LINCOM Europa, 2000.
10. Lamb, Sydney, Dimensions of the Territory of Neurolinguistics.
Chapter 16 of Language and Reality (ed. Jonathan Webster). London:
Continuum, 2004.
11. Pulvermüller, Friedemann, Neuronal Structure and Function.
Chapter 2 of The Neuroscience of Language. Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
12. Pulvermüller, Friedemann, Words in the Brain. Chapter 4 of
The Neuroscience of Language. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
13. Mountcastle, Vernon. The Columnar Organization of the
Neocortex. Chapter 7 of Perceptual Neuroscience: The Cerebral
Cortex. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
14. Lamb, Sydney, Language and Brain: When Experiments are
Unfeasible, You Have to Think Harder. Linguistics and the Human
Sciences 1.151-178, 2005.
15. Beeman, Mark, Coarse Semantic Coding and Discourse
Comprehension. Chapter 10 of Right Hemisphere Language
Comprehension: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience (eds.
Mark Beeman & Christine Chiarello). Mahwah & London: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
16. Lamb, Sydney, On the Perception of Speech. Chapter 18 of
Language and Reality (ed. Jonathan Webster). Continuum, 2004.
17. Lamb, Sydney and Xiuhong Zhang. The Mental Representation of
Chinese Compounds: Evidence from Aphasia. Journal of Chinese
Linguistics 38.26-44, 2010.
18. Hickock, Gregory, Speech Perception, Conduction Aphasia, and
the Functional Neuroanatomy of Language. Chapter 4 of Language
and the Brain: Representation and Processing (eds. Yosef
Grodzinsky, Lew Shapire & David Swinney). San Diego: Academic
Press, 2000.
19. Friederici, Angela D. Pathways to Language: Fiber Tracts in the
Human Brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 13, No.
4.175-181, 2009.
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