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1	Origins of Human Communication more books like this by Michael Tomasello add to wishlist Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of ... see all copies from $27.99! new only from $27.99! \| SVS
2	Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition more books like this by Michael Tomasello add to wishlist Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities. Tomasello argues that the essence ... see all copies from $25.93! new only from $25.93! \| SVS
3	The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume I more books like this by Michael Tomasello (Editor) add to wishlist From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics", however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically ... see all copies from $18.50! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
4	The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition more books like this by Michael Tomasello add to wishlist This work builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. The author is one of very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. This work identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from. Tomasello argues that the roots ... see all copies from $18.89! new only from $24.94! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates more books like this by Michael Tomasello (Editor), Dan Isaac Slobin (Editor) add to wishlist Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California, San Diego, psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature; she was also a nurturing force, as is evidenced by ... see all copies from $45.92! new only from $45.92! \| SVS
6	Language Development: The Essential Readings more books like this by Michael Tomasello (Editor), Elizabeth Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Research on child language is an interdisciplinary enterprise, uniting the efforts of psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, educators, neuroscientists and communication scientists. In selecting representative readings from this broad and fast-moving field, the editors of this collection have emphasized recent papers that illustrate the ... see all copies from $38.40! new only from $53.11!
7	The Emergence of Social Cognition in Three Young Chimpanzees more books like this by Michael Tomasello (Actor), Malinda Carpenter (Revised by), R Peter Hobson add to wishlist This Monograph reports a series of ten studies on the social-cognitive abilities of three young chimpanzees, ages to four years. This title compares outcomes to similar studies conducted on human infants for a comparative understanding. It looks at chimpanzees' abilities to understand and imitate goal-directed actions. Results suggest that the ... see all copies from $4.78! new only from $8.90! \| SVS
8	Primate Cognition more books like this by Michael Tomasello, Josep Call add to wishlist Since Charles Darwin first began formulating his theories on evolution much research has been conducted on primate cognition. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call set out to review all that is scientifically known about the cognitive skills of non-human primates and to assess the current state of our knowledge. The authors integrate ... see all copies from $34.60! new only from $48.45! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Child Language Research Forum more books like this by Eve Clark (Editor), Twila Tardif (Contributions by), Susan A. Gelman (Contributions by) add to wishlist The contributors to this volume explore their findings on language acquisition in a variety of the world's languages, reflecting the diversity of interests in the field and the range of languages being studied. This volume makes an empirical, as well as a theoretical, contribution to linguistic research. Since its inception in 1967, the Forum has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.24! \| first editions
10	First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development more books like this by Michael Tomasello add to wishlist During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author argues persuasively that the ... see all copies from $59.99! new only from $63.37! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys more books like this by Josep Call (Editor), Michael Tomasello (Editor) add to wishlist "The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys" is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates. The editors also make systematic comparisons to the ... see all copies from $32.36! new only from $32.36!
12 view cover	Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook more books like this by Michael J Miles (Editor), Jimmy Tomasello (Editor) add to wishlist This collection features over 100 all-time folk favorites in the spirit of the school it is named for. The Old Town School of Folk Music opened its doors in December 1957 to teach "good folk music," and its students learn such tunes as: Bill Bailey * Buffalo Gals * City of New Orleans * Cripple Creek * Erie Canal * House of the Rising Sun * Just a ... see all copies from $8.44! new only from $8.44!
13 view cover	Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age more books like this by Malinda Carpenter (Editor), Katherine Nagell (Editor), Michael Tomasello (Editor) add to wishlist The studies in this volume measure the various behaviours that are displayed as infants and mothers share their attention on an outside object: joint engagement, following gazes and points, gestures, imitation of actions, and language comprehension and production. The authors show how infants follow a progression from "sharing" to "following" to ... see all copies from $15.00!
14 view cover	Beyond Names for Things: Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs more books like this by Michael Tomasello (Editor), William E Merriman (Editor) add to wishlist This volume focuses on how children acquire their early verbs. Verbs are an especially important part of the early lexicon because of the role they play in children's emerging grammatical competence. The contributors to this book investigate: children's earliest words for actions and events and the cognitive structures that might underlie them; ... see all copies from $132.16! new only from $136.12!
15 view cover	Why We Cooperate more books like this by Michael Tomasello add to wishlist Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally--and uniquely--cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example ... see all copies from $10.53! new only from $10.53! \| SVS
16	Die Kulturelle Entwicklung Des Menschlichen Denkens by Michael; Schröder Tomasello, Jürgen add to wishlist see all copies from $20.96! new only from $38.69!
17	Die Kulturelle Entwicklung Des Menschlichen Denkens. Zur Evolution Der Kognition by Michael Tomasello Michael Tomasello add to wishlist see all copies from $72.28!

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