When children acquire a first language, they build on what they know–conceptual
information that discriminates and helps create categories for the objects, relations and …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

According to the Cognitive Complexity and Control (CCC) theory, the development of
executive function can be understood in terms of age-related increases in the maximum …

Our understanding of many mental, social and physical phenomena hinges on a general
understanding that appearances can differ from reality. Yet young children sometimes seem …

IV. CHILDREN'S FLEXIBLE THINKING ABOUT MEANINGS AND MESSAGES A.
DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE NAMING B. DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE FLEXIBILITY …

This chapter addresses the relation between hot and cool executive function (EF) in the
context of research on theory of mind (ToM) and EF. The relation between ToM and EF is …

Two studies (N= 456) compared the development of concepts of animal species and human
gender, using a switched‐at‐birth reasoning task. Younger children (5‐and 6‐year‐olds) …

Adult speakers choose among perspectives when they talk, with different words picking out
different perspectives (eg, the dog, our pet, that animal). The many-perspectives account of …