First Language Acquisition

• Baby Talk - U.S. News and World Reports - http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980615/15lang.htm
  
• The Origins of Babble - Johns Hopkins article - http://jhuniverse.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0298web/baby.html
  
• The Landscapes of Language - Duke Univ. - http://www.duke.edu/~pk10/language/intro.htm

• Brain and Language lecture - Univ. of Pennsylvania - http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_1998/ling001/neurology.html
  
• A brain that talks.(neurological evolution of human language) - Discover, June 1996 v17 n6 p82(9) - http://www.pinn.net/~stephenl/languageacquisition/article09.txt
  
• The Landscapes of Language - Duke Univ. - http://www.duke.edu/~pk10/language/intro.htm
  
• Language and Brain - Stephen Crain of the University of Maryland, College Park http://www.lsadc.org/Crain.html
  
• Neurolinguistics - Lise Menn of the University of Colorado - http://www.lsadc.org/Menn.html

• State of the Art: SLA Research and Second Language Teaching - by Peter Robinson - Language Teacher Online - http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/97/jul/robinson.html
  
• Second Language Learning in a Social Context - Rose Marie Beebe, Santa Clara University and Kathy Leonard, Iowa State University, January 1994 - ERIC Digest Online - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/beebe001.html

• The Japanese Language - Shigeru Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - very short - http://www-japan.mit.edu/articles/JapaneseLanguage.html
  
• Japanese Language - Britannica Encyclopedia Online - http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/8/0,5716,118148+1,00.html