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Preface; Introduction; Part I. Foundational Issues: 1. The mosaicevolution of cognitive and linguistic ontogeny Jonas Langer; 2. Theories,language, and culture: Whorf without wincing Alison Gopnik; 3. Initialknowledge and conceptual change: space and number Elizabeth S. Spelke andSanna Tsivkin; Part II. Constraints on Word Learning?: 4. How domain-generalprocesses may create domain-specific biases Linda B. Smith; 5. Perceivingintentions and learning words in the second year of life Michael Tomasello;6. Roots of word learning Paul Bloom; Part III. Entities, Individuation, andQuantification: 7. Whorf versus continuity theorists: bringing data to bearon the debate Susan Carey; 8. Individuation, relativity, and early wordlearning Dedre Gentner and Lera Boroditsky; 9. Grammatical categories and thedevelopment of classification preferences: a comparative approach John A.Lucy and Suzanne Gaskins; 10. Person in the language of singletons, siblings,and twins Werner Deutsch, Angela Wagner, Renate Buchardt, Nina Schultz andJorg Nakath; 11. Early representation for all, each, and their counterpartsin Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese Patricia J. Brooks, Martin D. S. Braine,Gisele Jia and Maria da Graca Dias; 12. Children's weak interpretations ofuniversally quantified questions Kenneth F. Drozd; Part IV. RelationalConcepts in Form-Function Mapping: 13. Emergent categories in first languageacquisition Eve V. Clark; 14. Form-function relations: how do children findout what they are? Dan J. Slobin; 15. Cognitive-conceptual development andthe acquisition of grammatical morphemes: the development of time conceptsand verb tense Heike Behrens; 16. Shaping meanings for language: universaland language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semantic categoriesMelissa Bowerman and Soonja Choi; 17. Learning to talk about motion UP andDOWN in Tzeltal: is there a language-specific bias for verb learning?Penelope Brown; 18. Finding the richest path: language and cognition in theacquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan) Lourdes de Leon; 19.Covariation between spatial language and cognition, and its implications forlanguage learning Stephen C. Levinson; Indexes.