
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...

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...