In article <6sn4qb$953 at omni.cc.purdue.edu> Gary Jasdzewski,
garyjaz at omni.cc.purdue.edu writes:
> I am trying to persuade people who are interested in
>second language acquisition (SLA) that they might be better able to choose
>between the many different theories available by weeding out those that
>are not neurally plausible.
A lot of interesting work has been done on acquisition of songs by birds.
There are remarkable parallels between birdsong acquisition and human
language acquisition (plenty of differences, too). But this area might be
interesting for you to look into, because along with psychophysical and
"sociological" experiments, there is also a lot of detailed neuroanatomy
and electrophysiological data as well.
Try a medline search on A. Doupe or D. Margoliash as a starting point.
-Matt Jones
