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1. Becoming human : a theory of ontogeny [2019]
- Tomasello, Michael, author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Description
- Book — x, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- I. Background. In search of human uniqueness ; Evolutionary foundations
- II. The ontogeny of uniquely human cognition. Social cognition ; Communication ; Cultural learning ; Cooperative thinking
- III. The ontogeny of uniquely human sociality. Collaboration ; Prosociality ; Social norms ; Moral identity
- IV. Conclusion. A neo-Vygotskian theory ; The power of shared agency.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674980853 20190204
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2. A natural history of human morality [2016]
- Tomasello, Michael, author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Description
- Book — x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent "we".
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674088641 20160619
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3. A natural history of human thinking [2014]
- Tomasello, Michael author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Description
- Book — xi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- The shared intentionality hypothesis
- Individual intentionality
- Joint intentionality
- Collective intentionality
- Human thinking as cooperation.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674724778 20190204
4. A natural history of human thinking [2014]
- Tomasello, Michael, author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) : illustrations Digital: text file; PDF.
- Summary
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- The shared intentionality hypothesis
- Individual intentionality
- Joint intentionality
- Collective intentionality
- Human thinking as cooperation.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674724778 20190204
5. Why we cooperate [2009]
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages).
- Summary
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Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262259255 20190128
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally-and uniquely-cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to work together and share, but choose not to. As children grow, their almost reflexive desire to help-without expectation of reward-becomes shaped by culture. They become more aware of being a member of a group. Groups convey mutual expectations, and thus may either encourage or discourage altruism and collaboration. Either way, cooperation emerges as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. In Why We Cooperate, Tomasello's studies of young children and great apes help identify the underlying psychological processes that very likely supported humans' earliest forms of complex collaboration and, ultimately, our unique forms of cultural organization, from the evolution of tolerance and trust to the creation of such group-level structures as cultural norms and institutions. Scholars Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke respond to Tomasello's findings and explore the implications.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262013598 20190129
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.
- Description
- Book — xviii, 206 p. ; 19 cm.
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- Born (and bred) to help
- From social interaction to social institutions
- Where biology and culture meet.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262013598 20190129
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7. Origins of human communication [2008]
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Description
- Book — xiii, 393 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group. These cooperative motives each created different functional pressures for conventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example, required very little grammar, but informing and sharing required increasingly complex grammatical devices. Drawing on empirical research into gestural and vocal communication by great apes and human infants (much of it conducted by his own research team), Tomasello argues further that humans' cooperative communication emerged first in the natural gestures of pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality infrastructure along with skills of cultural learning for creating and passing along jointly understood communicative conventions. Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamental aspects of uniquely human communication are biological adaptations for cooperative social interaction in general and that the purely linguistic dimensions of human communication are cultural conventions and constructions created by and passed along within particular cultural groups.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262201773 20190129
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8. Origins of human communication [2008]
- Tomasello, Michael, author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2008]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) : illustrations.
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- A focus on infrastructure
- Primate intentional communication
- Human cooperative communication
- Ontogenetic origins
- Phylogenetic origins
- The grammatical dimension
- From ape gestures to human language.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780262201773 20190129
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2005.
- Description
- Book — vii, 155 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- The emergence of social cognition : a longitudinal study
- Understanding intentional action
- Understanding perception and attention
- Joint intentions and attention
- Social engagement and understanding in chimpanzees and humans / R. Peter Hobson.
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- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Description
- Book — viii, 388 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities. Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. Grammar emerges as the speakers of a language create linguistic constructions out of recurring sequences of symbols, children pick up these patterns in the buzz of words they hear around them. Constructing a Language offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisition.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674010307 20160527
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- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages) : illustrations
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- *1. A Puzzle and a Hypothesis *2. Biological and Cultural Inheritance *3. Joint Attention and Cultural Learning *4. Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation *5. Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition *6. Discourse and Representational Redescription *7. Cultural Cognition * References * Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674010307 20190129
12. The cultural origins of human cognition [1999]
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Description
- Book — vi, 248 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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This work builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. The author is one of very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. This work identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from. Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture, and the kind of psychological development that takes p[lace within it, are based in a cluster of unique human cognitive capacities that emerge early in human ontogeny. These include capacities fort sharing attention with other persons, for understanding that others have intentions of their own; and for imitating, not just what someone else does, but what someone else has intended to do. In this discussions of language, symbolic representation, and cognitive-development, the author describes with authority and ingenuity the "ratchet effect" of the capacities working over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops. He also proposes a novel hypothesis, based on process of social cognition and cultural evolution, about what makes the cognitive representations of humans different from those of other primates.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674000704 20160527
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13. The cultural origins of human cognition [1999]
- Tomasello, Michael, author.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource : illustrations
- Summary
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- 1. A Puzzle and a Hypothesis
- 2. Biological and Cultural Inheritance
- 3. Joint Attention and Cultural Learning
- 4. Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation
- 5. Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition
- 6. Discourse and Representational Redescription
- 7. Cultural Cognition References Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674005822 20190128
14. Primate cognition [1997]
- Tomasello, Michael.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Description
- Book — ix, 517 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Introduction. Part I: Knowledge of the Physical World.
- 1: Space and Objects.
- 2: Tools and Causality.
- 3: Features and Categories.
- 4: Quantities.
- 5: Theories of Primate Physical Cognition. Part II: Knowlegde of the Social World.
- 6: Social Knowledge and Interaction.
- 7: Social Strategies and Communication.
- 8: Social Learning and Culture.
- 9: Theory of Mond.
- 10: Theories of Primate Social Cognition. Part III: A Theory Primate Cognition.
- 11: Nonhuman Primate Cognition.
- 12: Human Cognition.
- 13: Conclusion. References.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780195106237 20160528
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QL737 .P9 T65 1997 | Available |
- Tomasello, Michael.
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1991.
- Description
- Book — 373 p.
- Summary
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- Acknowledgments--
- 1. Introduction--
- 2. In the beginning was the verb--
- 3. Methods and an introduction to T's language--
- 4. Change of state verbs and sentences--
- 5. Activity verbs and sentences--
- 6. Other grammatical structures--
- 7. The development of T's verb lexicon--
- 8. The development of T's grammar--
- 9. Language acquisition as cultural learning-- References-- Appendix-- Index.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780521374965 20160528
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16. The new psychology of language : cognitive and functional approaches to language structure [2014 - ]
- Classic edition. - New York, NY : Psychology Press, 2014-
- Description
- Book — volume : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure, M. Tomasello Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar, R.W. Langacker The Functional Approach to Grammar, T. Givon The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language, W. Croft Language and the Flow of Thought, W. Chafe The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective, A. Wierzbicka Emergent Grammar, P.J. Hopper Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories, J.R. Taylor Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language, A.E. Goldberg The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, R.D. Van Valin, Jr. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration, G. Fauconnier.
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- Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello Introduction: Some Surprises for Psychologists, M. Tomasello Concept Structuring Systems in Language, L. Talmy Discourse and Grammar, J.W. Du Bois Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories, S. Kemmer Social Interaction and Grammar, C.E. Ford, B.A. Fox, S.A. Thompson Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization, J. Bybee Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference, K. van Hoek On Explaining Language Universals, B. Comrie The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison, M. Haspelmath Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case ofLet Alone, C.J. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781848725928 20160616
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17. The new psychology of language : cognitive and functional approaches to language structure [1998 - 2003]
- Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, c1998-2003.
- Description
- Book — 2 v.. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Introduction - the Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure, M. Tomasello-- Conceptualization, Symbolization and Grammar, R.W. Langacker-- The Functional Approach to Grammar, T. Givon-- The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language, W. Croft-- Language and the Flow of Thought, W. Chafe-- The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective, A. Wierzbicka-- Emergent Grammar, P.J. Hopper-- Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories, J.R. Taylor-- Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language, A.E. Goldberg-- The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, R.D. van Valin, Jr.-- Mental Spaces, Language Modalities and Conceptual Integration, G. Fauconnier.
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- Introduction to the volume - some surprises for psychologists, M. Tomasello-- concept structuring systems in language, L. Talmy-- discourse and grammar, J. DuBois-- human cognition and the elaboration of events - some universal conceptual categories, S. Kemmer-- social interaction and grammar, C. Ford, B. Fox, S. Thompson-- cognitive processes in grammaticalization, J. Bybee-- pronouns and point of view - cognitive principles of coreference, K. van Hoek-- on explaining language universals, B. Comrie-- the geometry of grammatical meaning - semantic maps and crosslinguistic comparison, M. Haspelmath-- regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions, C. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780805825770 20160528
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics", however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals. The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce and acquire natural languages. The current volume brings together ten of the most important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is often not easily available to those outside the field. Each of these scholars focus on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social interactional processes that constitute human linguistic communication. The book should be of special interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more psychological approach to language.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780805834284 20160528
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- Pettit, Philip, 1945- author.
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Description
- Book — vi, 387 pages ; 22 cm.
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Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have faced a set of pressures, and made a series of adjustments in response, sufficient to put them within reach of ethical concepts. Without any planning, they would have more or less inevitably evolved a way of using such concepts to articulate desirable patterns of behavior and to hold themselves and one another responsible to those standards. Sooner or later, they would have entered ethical space. While this central claim is developed as a thesis in conjectural history or genealogy, the aim of the exercise is philosophical. Assuming that it explains the emergence of concepts and practices that are more or less equivalent to ours, the story offers us an account of the nature and role of morality. It directs us to the function that ethics plays in human life and alerts us to the character in virtue of which it can serve that function. The emerging view of morality has implications for the standard range of questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and enables us to understand why there are divisions in normative ethics like that between consequentialist and Kantian approaches.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780190904913 20190121
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- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2007.
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- Book — viii, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
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"The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys" is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates. The editors also make systematic comparisons to the gestural communication of prelinguistic and just-linguistic human children. An enlightening exploration unfolds into what may represent the starting point for the evolution of human communication and language. This especially significant read is organized into nine chapters that discuss: *the gestural repertoire of chimpanzees; *gestures in orangutans, subadult gorillas, and siamangs; *gestural communication in Barbary macaques; and *a comparison of the gestures of apes and monkeys. This book will appeal to psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists interested in the evolutionary origins of language and/or gestures, as well as to all primatologists. A CD insert offers video of gestures for each of the species.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781410616364 20160527
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QL737 .P96 G47 2007 | Available |
- Malden, Mass. ; Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishers, c2001.
- Description
- Book — viii, 375 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Part I: Introduction to Speech Perception:1. Peter W. Jusczyk: Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants from Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1997, Volume 6, 170-174.
- 2. Janet F. Werker and Renee N: Desjardins. Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life: Experiential Influences on Phoneme Perception from Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1995, Volume 4, 76-81.
- 3. Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, Jacques Mehler: Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Coton-Top Tamarin Monkeys from Science, 2000, Volume 288, 349-351.
- 4. R. L. Gomez and L. A. Gerken: Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2000, 4,
- 178.
- 186.
- 5. Anne Fernald, John P. Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Weinberg, and Gerald W. McRoberts: Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year from Psychological Science, 1998, Volume 9, 228-231. Part II: Introduction to Word learning:6. Helen I. Shwe and Ellen M. Markman: Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals from Developmental Psychology, 1997, Volume 33, 630-636.
- 7. Maria Cristina Caselli et al: Lexical Development in English and Italian from Cognitive Development,
- 1995.
- 8. Michael Tomasello: Perceiving Intentions an Learning Words in the Second Year of Life in: M. Bowerman and S. Levinson (Eds. ), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, 2000, Cambridge University Press.
- 9. Lori Markson and Paul Bloom: Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children from Nature, 1997, Volume 385, 813-815.
- 10. Elizabeth Bates, Judith C. Goodman: On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition, Aphasia and Real-Time Processing from Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997, 507-584. Part III: Introduction to Grammatical Development:11. Michael Tomasello: The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2000, Volume 4, 156-163.
- 12. Nameera Akhtar: Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure from Journal of Child Language, 1999, Volume 26, 339-356.
- 13. Klaus-Michael Koepcke: The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules from Journal of Child Language, 1998, Volume 25, 293-319.
- 14. Nancy Budwig: An Exploration Into Children's Use of Passives from Linguistics, 1990, Volume 28, 1221-1252.
- 15. Lois Bloom, Matthew Rispoli, Barbara Gartner, and Jeremie Hafitz: Acquisition of Complementation from Journal of Child Language, 1989, Volume 16, 101-120.
- 16. Dan I. Slobin: Form/Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are? in: M. Bowerman and S. Levinson (Eds. ), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, 2000, Cambridge University Press. Part IV: Brain, Genes, & Computation in Language Development:17. Jeffrey. L. Elman: Connectionism and Language Acquisition.
- 18. Barbara Clancy and Barbara Finlay: Neural Correlelates of Early Language Learning Excerpted from E. Bates, D. Thal, B. L. Finlay, and B. Clancy: Early Language Development and its Neural Correlates (in press) Early Language Development and its Neural Correlates to Appear in I. Rapin and S. Segalowitz (Eds. ), Handbook of Neuropsychology, Volume 6, Child Neurology (2nd edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- 19. Annette Karniloff-Smith: Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1998, Volume 2, 389-398.
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