Volume three of this series contains chapters on seven more languages, including: Georgian, Greenlandic, Kiche Mayan, Warlpiri, Mandarin, Scandinavian and Sesotho. It also provides a section on ergative languages.

This collection of essays is representative of research interests in the fields of language and social interaction from linguistically oriented approaches to social and ethnographic approaches. Useful for graduate students studying language and social interaction.

This collection of essays is representative of research interests in the fields of language and social interaction from linguistically oriented approaches to social and ethnographic approaches. Useful for graduate students studying language and social interaction.

Volume one from this series contains comprehensive studies on the acquisition of 15 different languages (from ASL to Samoan), written by researchers who specialize in each topic.

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; she was also a nurturing force, as is evidenced by this collaborative collection of chapters written by many of her closest colleagues and former students. The book covers a brilliant career of wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests, such as the brain bases of language in children and...