Perspectives on Language and Thought
Interrelations in Development

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction:
1. Perspectives on thought and language: traditional and contemporary views James P. Byrnes and Susan A. Gelman
Part II. Relations Between Word Learning and Categorization:
2. Acquisitional principles in lexical development Eve V. Clark
3. The whole-object, taxonomic, and mutual exclusivity assumptions as initial constraints on word meanings Ellen M. Markman
4. Convergences between semantic and conceptual organization in the preschool years Sandra R. Waxman
5. Language and categorization: the acquisition of natural kind terms Susan A. Gelman and John D. Coley
6. Theories, concepts, and the acquisition of word meaning Frank C. Keil
Part III. Logical, Causal, and Temporal Expressions:
7. Language and the career of similarity Dedre Gentner and Mary Jo Rattermann
8. The matter of time: interdependencies between language and thought in development Katherine Nelson
9. Constraints on the acquisition of English modals Marilyn Shatz and Sharon A. Wilcox
10. Acquisition and development of if and because: conceptual and linguistic aspects James P. Byrnes
Part IV. The Role of Social Interaction:
11. The language of thinking: metacognitive and conditional words Ellin Kofsky Scholnick and William S. Hall
12. Parent-child collaboration in young children's understanding of category hierarchies Maureen A. Callanan
13. Beginning to talk with peers: the roles of setting and knowledge Lucia French, Marylou Boynton and Rosemary Hodges.

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