Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Foundational issues

The mosaic evolution of cognitive and linguistic ontogeny

Jonas Langer

Theories, language, and culture: Whorf without wincing

Alison Gopnik

Initial knowledge and conceptual change: space and number

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Sanna Tsivkin

Part 2 Constraints on word learning?

How domain-general processes may create domain-specific biases

Linda B. Smith

Perceiving intentions and learning words in the second year of life

Michael Tomasello

Roots of word learning

Paul Bloom

Part 3 Entities, individuation, and quantification

Whorf versus continuity theorists: bringing data to bear on the debate

Susan Carey

Individuation, relativity, and early word learning

Dedre Gentner

Lera Boroditsky

Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences: a comparative approach

John A. Lucy

Suzanne Gaskins

Person in the language of singletons, siblings, and twins

Werner Deutsch

Angela Wagner

Renate Burchardt

Nina Schulz

Jorg Nakath

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

Children's weak interpretations of universally quantified questions

Kenneth F. Drozd

Part 4 Relational concepts in form-function mapping

Emergent categories in first language acquisition

Eve V. Clark

Form-function relations: how do children find out what they are?

Dan I. Slobin

Cognitive-conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes: the development of time concepts and verb tense

Heike Behrens

Shaping meanings for language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categories

Melissa Bowerman

Soonja Choi

Learning to talk about motion Up and Down in Tzeltal: is there a language-specific bias for verb learning?

Penelope Brown

Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan)

Lourdes de Leon

Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications for language learning

Stephen C. Levinson

Author index

Subject index