Developmental Psychology Arena

From Orthography to Pedagogy

Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky

• Edited by Thomas R. Trabasso, John P. Sabatini, Dominic W. Massaro and Robert Calfee.

Published March 2005

From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances…
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NABE Review of Research and Practice

Volume 3

• Edited by Virginia Gonzalez, and Josefina Tinajero.

Published January 2005

The National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE) published electronic issues of Volumes 1 and 2 of the NABE Journal of Research and Practice to offer archival records of 2002 and 2003 NABE conferences presentations. Beginning with Volume 3, the title of the publication is changed to NABE…
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Bilingualism

The Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic Interface

• By Joel Walters.

Published December 2004

In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically…
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Biology and Knowledge Revisited

From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis

• Edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer and Constance Milbrath.

Published December 2004

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates. Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the…
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Kids' Slips

What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development

• By Jeri J. Jaeger.

Published November 2004

The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips, there…
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Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

New Perspectives

• Edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova and Ludmila A. Marchenkova.

Published October 2004

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it…
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Beyond Nature-Nurture

Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

• Edited by Michael Tomasello, and Dan Isaac Slobin.

Published August 2004

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at 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;…
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The Development of the Mediated Mind

Sociocultural Context and Cognitive Development

• Edited by Joan M. Lucariello, Judith A. Hudson, Robyn Fivush and Patricia J. Bauer.

Published April 2004

This volume is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory. The "mediated mind" is a term coined by Dr. Nelson and it refers to how cognitive development is mediated by the sociocultural context, including language and social interaction.…
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The Child Language Reader

• Edited by Kate Trott, Sushie Dobbinson and Patrick Griffiths.

Published December 2003

The Child Language Reader provides an introduction to the most important research in child language acquisition and development. Including extensive editorial introductions, which explain key background, assumptions and terminology, and organized into thematic sections, it brings the reader into…
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Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2

Typological and Contextual Perspectives

• Edited by Sven Str”mqvist, Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Stromqvist.

Published November 2003

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic…
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