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The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers
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Communicative Intents Expressed by Parents in Interaction with Young Children.
(1996)Although much attention has been devoted to lexical, grammatical, and semantic aspects of child-directed speech, less is known about its pragmatics. This paper describes a longitudinal study of the communicative intents ... -
Liberalism versus Democracy? Schooling Private Citizens in the Public Square
(1997)This article examines the conflict in political liberalism between the demands placed on education by liberalism and those placed on education by democracy. In so far as the principles of political liberalism entail both ... -
How iconic are Chinese characters?
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)The study explores the notion that some Chinese characters contain pictorial indications of meanings that can be used to help retrieve the referent. Thirty adults with no prior knowledge of Chinese guessed the meanings of ... -
La metodología RETAMHE y el proyecto CHILDES : breviario para la codificación y análisis del lenguaje infantil
(Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 1999)En este artículo se investigan algunas cuestiones metodológicas relativas al estudio del lenguaje infantil y se presenta la instrumentación y el software desarrollados en el proyecto CHILDES (Sistema de Intercambio de Datos ... -
Pointing and talk by low-income mothers and their 14-month-old children
(SAGE Publications, 2000)This study examines maternal talk and uses of the pointing gesture during interaction with young children in order to uncover the relationship between maternal and child pointing and talk. Forty- five low-income mother-child ... -
Art in the Advancement of Understanding
(2002)Cognitive progress often involves reconfiguring a domain, bringing previously unrecognized likenesses, differences, patterns and discrepancies to light. I argue that the arts effect such reconfigurations, enabling us to ... -
Challenging Deliberation
(SAGE Publications, 2003)Civic education is a primary aim of public schooling in liberal democratic states, which rely on a well-educated, civic-minded citizenry for their perpetuation. Because liberal democracies can differ, it is important to ... -
The Language of Race
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A New Perspective on Perspective Taking: A Multidimensional Approach to Conceptualizing an Aptitude
(Springer-Verlag, 2004)Social perspective taking (SPT) is thought to be important in its own right and is often associated with other important skills, such as interpersonal conflict resolution. Thus, it is critical for researchers to systematically ... -
A Comparison of Fathers' and Mothers' Talk to Toddlers in Low-income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)The purpose of this study was to provide descriptive information about low-income fathers’ and mothers’ talk to toddlers and to re-examine the bridge hypothesis (Gleason, 1975) in light of current changes in family ... -
Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study
(2004)This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was ... -
Measuring productive vocabulary of toddlers in low-income families: concurrent and predictive validity of three sources of data
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004)This study examined parental report as a source of information about toddlers’ productive vocabulary in 105 low-income families living in either urban or rural communities. Parental report using the MacArthur Communicative ... -
The Importance of Reading Difficulties and Family in Teachers' Decisions to Retain Children: A Case Study in Costa Rica
(University of Oviedo, 2005)Grade retention in many countries is the de facto remediation policy for children who have academic difficulties in first grade. For example, 14.9 percent of first graders repeated in Costa Rica in 2002. This study describes ...