Beyond Nature-Nurture

This special tribute to Elizabeth Ann Bates--a psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist--spans her brilliant career of wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests. It should appeal to international scholars in the fields of developmental psycholinguistics, cognitive science, crosslinguistic research, and child and adult language disorders.

Michael Tomasello, Dan Isaac Slobin

Contents: D.I. Slobin, M. Tomasello, Introduction. Elizabeth Bates's Aphorisms for the Study of Language, Cognition, Development, Biology, and Evolution. Vita and Publications of Elizabeth Bates. Part I:Gestures and Word Meaning.V. Volterra, M.C. Caselli, O. Capirci, E. Pizzuto, Gesture and the Emergence and Development of Language. P. Dale, J. Goodman, Commonality and Individual Differences in Vocabulary Growth. Part II:The Competition Model and Connectionism.B. MacWhinney, New Directions in the Competition Model. J.L. Elman, M. Hare, K. McRae, Cues, Constraints, and Competition in Sentence Processing. Part III:Grammar.V. Marchman, D. Thal, Words and Grammar. A. Devescovi, S. D'Amico, The Competition Model: Crosslinguistic Studies of Online Processing. Part IV:Biology and Language.B.L. Finlay, Rethinking Developmental Neurobiology. A. Karmiloff-Smith, Bates's Emergentist Theory and Its Relevance to Understanding Genotype/Phenotype Relations. F. Dick, N.F. Dronkers, L. Pizzamiglio, A.P. Saygin, S.L. Small, S. Wilson, Language and the Brain. Part V:Language Processing.W.D. Marslen-Wilson, L.K. Tyler, The Lexicon, Grammar, and the Past Tense: Dissociation Revisited. J. Aydelott, M. Kutas, K.D. Federmeir, Perceptual and Attentional Factors in Language Comprehension: A Domain-General Approach. J. Aydelott, Addendum: About Liz.