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Susan Curtiss
Curtiss, Susan. Genie: a psycholinguistic study of a modern-day wild child. Academic Press, 2014.

This book is Susan Curtiss’ most cited work. It reviews various aspects of Genie’s (the feral child who grew up without any true stimulation or language exposure) history. It also covers the different features of Genie’s language skills and development, comparing what she could comprehend versus what she could produce.

Curtiss, Susan, et al. "The linguistic development of Genie." Language (1974): 528-554.

This paper, similar to Susan Curtiss’ book, discusses Genie, and the way her linguistic system developed. This paper touches on topics such as “nature vs nurture” and the critical period for when a child must learn language before the door shuts forever.

Tallal, Paula, Randal Ross, and Susan Curtiss. "Familial aggregation in specific language impairment." journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 54.2 (1989): 167-173.

Susan Curtiss helped to author this paper about how specific language impairment can aggregate in families. There were higher incident rates for children with SLI to come from families that included parents or siblings that also had SLI.

Kempler, Daniel, Susan Curtiss, and Catherine Jackson. "Syntactic preservation in Alzheimer's disease." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 30.3 (1987): 343-350.

Susan Curtiss contributed to this paper about how even in Alzheimer’s patients, the use of syntax remains in a normal range, even if the individual showed poor control over lexical items. This supports the modular theory of grammar, and also shows how deeply embedded the rules of language are in the brain.

Curtiss, Susan. "Dissociations between language and cognition: Cases and implications." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 11.1 (1981): 15-30.

This article authored by Susan Curtiss discusses how the acquisition of a normal linguistic system (and a normal understanding of grammar) is dependent on both linguistic and nonlinguistic cognitive development. Without these two things, a person will not be able to make the proper connections between grammar and meaning.

Nebes, Robert D. "Semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease." Psychological bulletin 106.3 (1989): 377.

This article seems to build off of Susan Curtiss work on Alzheimer’s patients’ ability to maintain syntax despite progression of the disease. In this article, the author discusses how Alzheimer’s patients seem to lose their control over semantic content.

Jones, Peter E. "Contradictions and unanswered questions in the Genie case: A fresh look at the linguistic evidence." Language & Communication 15.3 (1995): 261-280.

The author of this article re-examines some of the facts of Genie’s case and sheds some new (?) light on some of the linguistic evidence that was previously discussed by Susan Curtiss.

Lebrun, Yvan. "H. Lane, The wild boy of Aveyron. London: Allen & Unwin, 1977. pp. 351-S. Curtiss, Genie: a psycholinguistic study of a modern-day ‘wild child’. New York: Academic Press, 1977. pp. xvi+ 288-C. Maclean, The wolf children. London: Allen Lane, 1978. pp. 324." Journal of Child Language 7.1 (1980): 227-231.

This source appears to be a review regarding of Susan Curtiss’ work regarding Genie, making it out to be a bit larger than life.

Dutch, Jeremiah B. "“Genie” and Her Implications."

This author criticizes Susan Curtiss disproportionate usage of time spent with Genie. According to the author, too much time was spent testing Genie, and not enough time was spent teaching/instructing Genie, and that further prevented her from being able to pick up language.

Goldin-Meadow, Susan. "A study in human capacities." (1978): 649-651.

This author reviews Susan Curtiss most well-known book and praises Curtiss and her book for treating Genie and the sensitive topic matter in as sensitive a way as possible while still getting to the heart of the issue.

Kate Burridge
Allan, Keith, and Kate Burridge. Forbidden words: Taboo and the censoring of language. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

This is Kate Burridge’s most cited book. In this book, the various types of taboo (ranging from assorted bodily functions to different acts to inflict on oneself or others) are listed. The book then goes on to cover the different ways that we as people discuss these taboo topics (euphemism, dysphemism, etc)

Burridge, Kate. "Euphemism and language change: The sixth and seventh ages." ''Lexis. Journal in English Lexicology'' 7 (2012).

This paper by Kate Burridge discusses the effect that taboo words have on the way language evolves. The feelings of society towards taboo words gives those words a comparatively great power over changes seen in that respective language.

Burridge, Kate. Weeds in the garden of words: further observations on the tangled history of the English language. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

This book by Kate Burridge discusses some of the unique features of various dialects of English that make them noticeably different from one another. Each of these features has a long and complex history, and each of the dialects has crossover with other dialects.

Börjars, Kersti, and Kate Burridge. Introducing english grammar. Routledge, 2019.

This book, authored in part by Kate Burridge, covers various aspects of the English language ranging from word types to sentence structure. It discusses various types of phrases and clauses as well.

Burridge, Kate. Syntactic change in Germanic: Aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch. Vol. 89. John Benjamins Publishing, 1993.

Kate Burridge discusses Middle Dutch and its various grammatical features in this book. She describes not only what is meant by Middle Dutch, but also how certain features came to change over time in the language.

Burridge, Kate. "Linguistic cleanliness is next to godliness: Taboo and purism." English Today 26.2 (2010): 3.

This article written by Kate Burridge describes the motivation behind why we avoid taboo words. Taboo words are seen as unclean and impure, and as a part of prescriptive linguistics, people are supposed to have pure language (or what is deemed as pure).

Kissling, Elizabeth Arveda. "“That's just a basic teen‐age rule”;: Girls’ linguistic strategies for managing the menstrual communication taboo." (1996): 292-309.

This article discusses how from a young age, girls feel like it is taboo to discuss their menstrual period in direct terms, and furthermore that shame and embarrassment surround the experience, The author draws on Kate Burridge’s work with dysphemism to discuss how the termS typically used to discuss menstrual periods actually have negative connotations.

Hoeksema, Jack, and Donna Jo Napoli. "Just for the hell of it: A comparison of two taboo-term constructions." Journal of Linguistics (2008): 347-378.

This article discusses how taboo words are used to ‘flavor’ language and to add emphasis to a sentence. Additionally, the author gives praise to Kate Burridge (and some of her colleagues) for being some of the foremost linguists who are studying the usage and importance of taboo words

Whittle, Leigh Ann. "Book Review: Weeds In The Garden Of Words: Kate Burridge. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 196 pages." Business Communication Quarterly71.2 (2008): 251-253.

This is a book review of Kate Burridge’s Weeds in the Garden of Words. The reviewer feels that the book is not suited for academic purposes, but rather for those whose interest in “gardening” their knowledge of English is recreational.

Smith, John Charles. "Report on the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 11-16 August 1997." Diachronica 15.1 (1998): 175-186.

This is a report of a conference at which Kate Burridge spoke. This conference was about historical linguistics, and she discussed language change.

https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/curtiss/

Susan Curtiss' page from UCLA, where she is a professor. Contains her selected publications.