CONTENTS
Preface = xi
Introduction = 1
Part 1 Foundational issues
1 The mosaic evolution of cognitive and linguistic ontogeny / JONAS LANGER = 19
2 Theories, language, and culture : Whorf without wincing / ALISON GOPNIK = 45
3 Initial knowledge and conceptual change : space and number / ELIZABETH S. SPELKE ; SANNA TSIVKIN = 70
Part 2 Constraints on word learning?
4 How domain-general processes may create domain-specific biases / LINDA B. SMITH = 101
5 Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second year of life / MICHAEL TOMASELLO = 132
6 Roots of word learning / PAUL BLOOM = 159
Part 3 Entities, individuation, and quantification
7 Whorf versus continuity theorists : bringing data to bear on the debate / SUSAN CAREY = 185
8 Individuation, relativity, and early word learning / DEDRE GENTNER ; LERA BORODITSKY = 215
9 Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences : a comparative approach / JOHN A. LUCY AND SUZANNE GASKINS = 257
10 Person in the language of singletons, siblings, and twins / WERNER DEUTSCH ; ANGELA WAGNER ; RENATE BURCHARDT ; NINA SCHULZ ; J$$\ddot O$$RG NAKATH = 284
11 Early representations for all, each, and their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese / PATRICIA J. BROOKS ; MARTIN D. S. BRAINE ; GISELA JIA ; MARIA DA GRACA DIAS = 316
12 Children's weak interpretations of universally quantified questions / KENNETH F. DROZD = 340
Part 4 Relational concepts in form-function mapping
13 Emergent categories in first language acquisition / EVE V. CLARK = 379
14 Form-function relations : how do children find out what they are? / DAN I. SLOBIN = 406
15 Cognitive-conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes : the development of time concepts and verb tense / HEIKE BEHRENS = 450
16 Shaping meanings for language : universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories / MELISSA BOWERMAN ; SOONJA CHOI = 475
17 Learning to talk about motion UP and DOWN in Tzeltal : is there a language-specific bias for verb learning? / PENELOPE BROWN = 512
18 Finding the richest path : language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan) / LOURDES DE LE$$\acute O$$N = 544
19 Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning / STEPHEN C. LEVINSON = 566
Author index = 589
Subject index = 597
Preface = xi
Introduction = 1
Part 1 Foundational issues
1 The mosaic evolution of cognitive and linguistic ontogeny / JONAS LANGER = 19
2 Theories, language, and culture : Whorf without wincing / ALISON GOPNIK = 45
3 Initial knowledge and conceptual change : space and number / ELIZABETH S. SPELKE ; SANNA TSIVKIN = 70
Part 2 Constraints on word learning?
4 How domain-general processes may create domain-specific biases / LINDA B. SMITH = 101
5 Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second year of life / MICHAEL TOMASELLO = 132
6 Roots of word learning / PAUL BLOOM = 159
Part 3 Entities, individuation, and quantification
7 Whorf versus continuity theorists : bringing data to bear on the debate / SUSAN CAREY = 185
8 Individuation, relativity, and early word learning / DEDRE GENTNER ; LERA BORODITSKY = 215
9 Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences : a comparative approach / JOHN A. LUCY AND SUZANNE GASKINS = 257
10 Person in the language of singletons, siblings, and twins / WERNER DEUTSCH ; ANGELA WAGNER ; RENATE BURCHARDT ; NINA SCHULZ ; J$$\ddot O$$RG NAKATH = 284
11 Early representations for all, each, and their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese / PATRICIA J. BROOKS ; MARTIN D. S. BRAINE ; GISELA JIA ; MARIA DA GRACA DIAS = 316
12 Children's weak interpretations of universally quantified questions / KENNETH F. DROZD = 340
Part 4 Relational concepts in form-function mapping
13 Emergent categories in first language acquisition / EVE V. CLARK = 379
14 Form-function relations : how do children find out what they are? / DAN I. SLOBIN = 406
15 Cognitive-conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes : the development of time concepts and verb tense / HEIKE BEHRENS = 450
16 Shaping meanings for language : universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories / MELISSA BOWERMAN ; SOONJA CHOI = 475
17 Learning to talk about motion UP and DOWN in Tzeltal : is there a language-specific bias for verb learning? / PENELOPE BROWN = 512
18 Finding the richest path : language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan) / LOURDES DE LE$$\acute O$$N = 544
19 Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning / STEPHEN C. LEVINSON = 566
Author index = 589
Subject index = 597