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1. Beyond Nature-Nurture

   Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

   Edited by Michael Tomasello, Dan Isaac Slobin

   Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature;...

   Published August 22nd 2004 by Psychology Press
2. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

   Volume 4

   Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

   Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups--Finnish, Greek, and Korean. The chapters are selective, critical reviews rather than exhaustive summaries of the...

   Published October 31st 1997 by Psychology Press
3. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

   Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts

   Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

   In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to "expand the contexts" in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically. The chapters build on themes that have been touched on, anticipated, and promised in earlier volumes in the series. The study of child language has...

   Published October 31st 1997 by Psychology Press
4. Social interaction, Social Context, and Language

   Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-tripp

   Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin, Julie Gerhardt, Amy Kyratzis, Jiansheng Guo

   This collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context. The opening chapter, entitled "Context in Language," is written by Susan Ervin-Tripp, whose diverse and innovative research inspired the...

   Published August 31st 1996 by Psychology Press
5. Relating Events in Narrative

   A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study

   Edited by Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin

   This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages--...

   Published March 31st 1994 by Psychology Press
6. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

   Volume 3

   Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

   Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven more languages, including a section on ergative languages. Languages in this volume include:* Georgian* Greenlandic* K'iche Mayan*Warlpiri* Mandarin*...

   Published September 30th 1992 by Psychology Press
7. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

   Volume 1: the Data

   Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

   An essential handbook for professionals and advanced students in the field. Volume 1 contains comprehensive studies on the acquisition of 15 different languages (from ASL to Samoan) -- written by top researchers on each topic. Volume 2 concentrates on theoretical issues, emphasizing current...

   Published August 31st 1986 by Psychology Press
8. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition

   Volume 2: Theoretical Issues

   Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin

   See Volume I (0-89859-367-0) for full description and TOC....

   Published August 31st 1986 by Psychology Press
9. Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Language-making Capacity

   What Shapes Children's Grammars, the Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, Volume 2, Chapter 12

   By Dan Isaac Slobin, Bowerman

   Published August 31st 1986 by Psychology Press