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1. The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys

   Edited by Josep Call, Michael Tomasello

   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...

   Published January 29th 2007 by Psychology Press
2. 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
3. The New Psychology of Language

   Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

   Edited by Michael Tomasello

   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...

   Published October 31st 2002 by Psychology Press
4. The New Psychology of Language

   Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume I

   Edited by Michael Tomasello

   This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this variety of linguistics can offer their study of...

   Published June 30th 1998 by Psychology Press
5. Beyond Names for Things

   Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs

   Edited by Michael Tomasello, William E. Merriman

   Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifically on how children acquire their early verbs. Verbs are an especially important part of the early lexicon because of the role they play...

   Published December 31st 1994 by Psychology Press