Perspectives on thought and language : traditional and contemporary views / James P. Byrnes and Susan A. Gelman -- Acquisitional principles in lexical development / Eve V. Clark -- The whole-object, taxonomic, and mutual exclusivity assumptions as initial constraints on word meanings / Ellen M. Markman -- Convergences between semantic and conceptual organization in the preschool years / Sandra R. Waxman -- Language and categorization : the acquisition of natural kind terms / Susan A. Gelman and John D. Coley -- Theories, concepts, and the acquisition of word meaning / Frank C. Keil -- Language and the career of similarity / Dedre Gentner and Mary Jo Rattermann
The matter of time : interdependencies between language and thought in development / Katherine Nelson -- Constraints on the acquisition of English modals / Marilyn Shatz and Sharon A. Wilcox -- Acquisition and development of if and because : conceptual and linguistic aspects / James P. Byrnes -- The language of thinking : metacognitive and conditional words / Ellin Kofsky Scholnick and Williams S. Hall -- Parent-child collaboration in young children's understanding of category hierarchies / Maureen A. Callanan -- Beginning to talk with peers : the roles of setting and knowledge / Lucia French, Marylou Boynton, and Rosemary Hodges