Most language usage is interactive, involving rapid turn-taking. The turn-taking system has a
number of striking properties: turns are short and responses are remarkably rapid, but turns …

Many developmental psycholinguists assume that young children have adult syntactic
competence, this assumption being operationalized in the use of adult-like grammars to …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of
the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Traditional American schooling is in constant crisis because it is based on two poor models
for children's learning: the school as a factory and the child as a blank slate. School reforms …

While the subject of play may seem trivial for behavioral science, EO Wilson noted that
understanding the significance of play is an important challenge facing scholars in these …

When do children become aware of themselves as differentiated and unique entity in the
world? When and how do they become self-aware? Based on some recent empirical …

The influence of culture on cognitive development is well established for school age and
older children. But almost nothing is known about how different parenting and socialization …