The Emergence of Symbols: Cognition and Communication in Infancy provides information
pertinent to the nature and origin of symbols, the interdependence of language and thought …

Compares nonhuman primates and human infants with regard to key abilities that provide
the foundation for language. It makes the case for phylogenetic continuity across species …

Contains essays that examine whether there is a developmental continuity between
preverbal and verbal levels of communication. It is suggested that the infant's early …

Human beings are imitative generalists. We can immediately imitate a wide range of
behaviors with great facility, whether they be vocal maneuvers, body postures, or actions on …

Many psychotherapists, as well as various mystics and gurus, exhort their clients or followers
to “live in the present moment,” to focus on current feelings and experiences, suppressing …

Some time around the end of the first year, normal children make the crucial discovery that
things have names. Although naming is in some sense the quintessential linguistic act …

Human linguistic communication differs from the communication of other animal species in
three main ways. First, and most importantly, human linguistic communication is symbolic …

Methods can powerfully affect conclusions about infant experiences and learning. Data from
naturalistic observations may paint a very different picture of learning and development from …

No facet of human development is more crucial than becoming symbol-minded. To
participate fully in any society, children have to master the symbol systems that are important …

Recent interest in the origins of language, within the strongly cognitive field of Evolutionary
Psychology, has predominantly focused upon the origins of syntax (cf. Hurford, Knight, & …