03623cam a22003734a 4500 1958 1958 11778284 OSt 20190913113536.0 990809s2001 enka b 001 0 eng 99042105 0521593581 (DLC) 99042105 DLC DLC DLC pcc P118 .L2497 2001 401.93 BOW L 21 Language acquisition and conceptual development / edited by Melissa Bowerman and Stephen C. Levinson. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi, 602 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Language, culture and cognition ; 3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface; Introduction; Part I. Foundational Issues: 1. The mosaic evolution of cognitive and linguistic ontogeny Jonas Langer; 2. Theories, language, and culture: Whorf without wincing Alison Gopnik; 3. Initial knowledge and conceptual change: space and number Elizabeth S. Spelke and Sanna Tsivkin; Part II. Constraints on Word Learning?: 4. How domain-general processes may create domain-specific biases Linda B. Smith; 5. Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second year of life Michael Tomasello; 6. Roots of word learning Paul Bloom; Part III. Entities, Individuation, and Quantification: 7. Whorf versus continuity theorists: bringing data to bear on the debate Susan Carey; 8. Individuation, relativity, and early word learning Dedre Gentner and Lera Boroditsky; 9. Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences: a comparative approach John A. Lucy and Suzanne Gaskins; 10. Person in the language of singletons, siblings, and twins Werner Deutsch, Angela Wagner, Renate Buchardt, Nina Schultz and Joerg Nakath; 11. Early representation for all, each, and their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese Patricia J. Brooks, Martin D. S. Braine, Gisele Jia and Maria da Graca Dias; 12. Children's weak interpretations of universally quantified questions Kenneth F. Drozd; Part IV. Relational Concepts in Form-Function Mapping: 13. Emergent categories in first language acquisition Eve V. Clark; 14. Form-function relations: how do children find out what they are? Dan J. Slobin; 15. Cognitive-conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: the development of time concepts and verb tense Heike Behrens; 16. Shaping meanings for language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories Melissa Bowerman and Soonja Choi; 17. Learning to talk about motion UP and DOWN in Tzeltal: is there a language-specific bias for verb learning? Penelope Brown; 18. Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan) Lourdes de Leon; 19. Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning Stephen C. Levinson; Indexes. Language acquisition. Cognition in children. Bowerman, Melissa. Levinson, Stephen C. Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/99042105.html Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam024/99042105.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam0210/99042105.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg ddc STS 0 0 ddc 0 0 32/3 AIISH AIISH 2019-09-13 1 401.93 BOW L 12688 2026-02-20 00:00:00 2026-01-05 2019-09-13 STS