Annotated Bibliography:

1. Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

An overview of how language developed through the eyes of a respected linguist and
evolutionary psychologist, Steven Pinker. He tries to explain how it works, how it can change
and how children learn it. He is on the side of the brain being a biomechanical mechanism from
which language was developed and the rules of language are inherit at the level of the genome.

2. Evolution of Universal Grammar
Martin A. Nowak, Natalia L. Komarova and Partha Niyogi
Science, New Series, Vol. 291, No. 5501 (Jan. 5, 2001), pp. 114-118
Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3082186

This article is applying their understanding of Noam Chomskys original view of universal grammar. That
natural selection was the process that is directly related to developing the complex languages of todays
Human population. It also tries to apply a mathematical function to language development to explain the
emergence of complex language amongst a population.





3. Logical Syntax and Semantics. Their Linguistic Relevance by Noam Chomsky
Review by: Lars Svenonius
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1958), p. 72
Published by: Association for Symbolic Logic
Article DOI: 10.2307/2964526
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2964526



4. Molecular Genetic Approaches to the Study of Language
LINDA M. BRZUSTOWICZ
Human Biology, Vol. 70, No. 2, Special Issue on Human Behavioral Genetics: Synthesis of Quantitative
and Molecular Approaches (April 1998), pp. 325-345
Published by: Wayne State University Press
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41465641

Because manipulating the genome in order to study language can be difficult there is not a lot of research
on the molecular structure of the gene coding for language development. Any manipulation of the
genome could have lifetime consequences for the test individual and could possibly be life debilitating.
We can use language disorders to more accurate define where language development could be on the
genome and understand its correct structure by viewing its incorrect structure.


5. Dawkins, Richard (2006). The Selfish Gene (30th Anniversary edition). New York City: Oxford
University Press. ISBN 0-19-929115-2.
Richard Dawkins expresses the original Darwinian view of evolution from the perspective of the
individual (gene). Many people and at one point, scientists used to assume that genetic survivability
was about the good of a species but that has been pointed to be not the case. Using this source to
better establish gene function and purpose we can use this light in making an educated guess as to
what is the reason that language would have developed in an individual by a mutating of genetic
structure.