
This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative child's emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving problems. In wide-ranging essays, scholars offer multifaceted linguistic and psychological...

An analysis by eight scholars of a two-year old child's pre-sleep monologues and conversations with her parents at bedtime, taped over a 15-month period. The study yields insights into language development and the capacity for understanding, imagining, and making inferences and...