Beyond nature-nurture: essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates

370 Pages·2005·20.429 MB·English

by  Michael Tomasello, Dan Isaac Slobin

BEYOND NATURE-NURTURE
Essays in Honor
of Elizabeth Bates
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BEYOND NATURE-NURTURE
Essays in Honor
of Elizabeth Bates
Edited by
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany
Dan Isaac Slobin
University of California, Berkeley
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
2005 Mahwah, New Jersey London
Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey
Two daughter-mother photographs: Elizabeth Bates and
Kathleen Bates (taken by Dan Slobin, Berkeley, 1977),
Julia Catherine Carnevale and Elizabeth Bates
(taken by George Carnevale, San Francisco, 1995).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beyond nature-nurture : essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates / edited by
Michael Tomasello, Dan I. Slobin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-5027-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Language acquisition. 2. Language development. 3. Psycholinguistics.
4. Nature and nurture. 5. Culture and cognition. 6. Language and culture.
7. Communication and culture. 8. Bates, Elizabeth. I. Bates, Elizabeth.
II. Tomasello, Michael. III. Slobin, Dan Isaac.
P118.B495 2004
401'.93—dc22 2004042516
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Books published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates are printed on acid-free paper,
and their bindings are chosen for strength and durability.
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This book is an all-too-early tribute to Liz Bates
from many colleagues and friends
who have learned so much from her
and have been deeply touched
by her participation in our lives and work.
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Contents
Contributors xin
Introduction xv
Dan I. Slobin and Michael Tomasello
Elizabeth Bates's Aphorisms for the Study of Language,
Cognition, Development, Biology, and Evolution xxv
Vita and Publications of Elizabeth Bates XXXI
PARTI GESTURES AND WORD LEARNING
1 Gesture and the Emergence and Development
of Language 3
Virginia Volterra, Maria Cristina Caselli, Olga Capirci,
and Elena Pizzuto
2 Commonality and Individual Differences
in Vocabulary Growth 41
Philip Dale and Judith Goodman
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