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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dan Isaac Slobin is a professor emeritus of psychology and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Slobin has made major contributions to the study of children's language acquisition, and his work has demonstrated the importance of cross-linguistic comparison for the study of language acquisition and psycholinguistics in general.
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- The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition (1987) (1622)
- From “thought and language” to “thinking for speaking” (1996) (1321)
- Cognitive prerequisites for the development of grammar (1973) (1096)
- The many ways to search for a frog: Linguistic typology and the expression of motion events (2004) (753)
- Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Language-making Capacity (1985) (610)
- Studies of child language development (1973) (578)
- Rules and schemas in the development and use of the English past tense (1982) (559)
- Thinking for Speaking (1987) (483)
- LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT ONLINE: COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY (2003) (457)
- Grammatical transformations and sentence comprehension in childhood and adulthood (1966) (441)
- Children use canonical sentence schemas: A crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections (1982) (424)
- Learning To Think For Speaking: Native Language, Cognition, And Rhetorical Style (1991) (336)
- The development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish (1977) (326)
- Verbalized events: A dynamic approach to linguistic relativity and determinism (2000) (313)
- Reference to Movement in Spoken and Signed Languages: Typological Considerations (1994) (283)
- What makes manner of motion salient? Explorations in linguistic typology, discourse, and cognition (2006) (258)
- ELICITED IMITATION AS A RESEARCH TOOL IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. (1967) (250)
- Mind, Code and Text (1997) (245)
- The Acquisition of Romance, With Special Reference To French (1986) (210)
- Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Use of the Turkish Evidential (1982) (195)
- Gesture and the emergence and development of language (2004) (184)
- Social interaction, Social Context, and Language : Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-tripp (1996) (176)
- A psychological account of the development and use of evidentials in Turkish (1986) (143)
- Language acquisition and conceptual development: Form–function relations: how do children find out what they are? (2001) (128)
- A COGNITIVE/FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ACQUISITION OF "CLASSIFIERS" (2003) (123)
- The origins of grammaticizable notions: beyond the individual mind (2014) (121)
- Beyond nature-nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates (2005) (118)
- Recall of full and truncated passive sentences in connected discourse (1968) (100)
- What makes manner of motion salient (2006) (97)
- A Case Study of Early Language Awareness (1978) (96)
- Universals of Grammatical Development in Children. (1969) (96)
- The ontogenesis of grammar : a theoretical symposium (1971) (90)
- Forms of address and social relations in a business organization. (1968) (86)
- Codability Effects on the Expression of Manner of Motion in Turkish and English (2003) (82)
- The Origins of Grammatical Encoding of Events (1982) (80)
- The Acquisition of Turkish (2017) (80)
- Aphasia in Turkish: Speech production in Broca's and Wernicke's patients (1991) (76)
- A FIELD MANUAL FOR CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF THE ACQUISITION OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE. SECOND DRAFT--JULY 1967. (1967) (73)
- Relating Narrative Events in Translation (2005) (72)
- A cross-linguistic study of the processing of causative sentences (1979) (65)
- Linguistic representations of motion events: What is signifier and what is signified? (2005) (63)
- Manners of human gait: a crosslinguistic event-naming study (2014) (63)
- Putting things in places: Developmental consequences of linguistic typology (2002) (61)
- The acquisition and use of Relative Clauses in Turkic and Indo-European Languages (1986) (54)
- Studies in Turkish Linguistics (1986) (53)
- Putting interaction back into child language: Examples from Turkish (2002) (51)
- Cultural psychology: The development from child speaker to native speaker (1990) (50)
- Sentence comprehension in aphasia in two clear case-marking languages (1991) (49)
- Transcription as a tool for understanding: The Berkeley Transcription System for sign language research (BTS) (2002) (48)
- The child as linguistic icon-maker (1984) (47)
- FROM ONTOGENESIS TO PHYLOGENESIS: WHAT CAN CHILD LANGUAGE TELL US ABOUT LANGUAGE EVOLUTION? (2004) (46)
- Why Small Children Cannot Change Language on their Own: Evidence from the English Past Tense (1982) (44)
- Climb up vs. ascend climbing: Lexicalization Choices in Expressing Motion Events with Manner and Path Components (2000) (39)
- Discourse origins of the present perfect (1994) (39)
- Sign language transcription at the level of meaning components: The Berkeley Transcription System (BTS) (2002) (39)
- Breaking the Molds: Signed Languages and the Nature of Human Language (2008) (38)
- How people move: Discourse effects of linguistic typology (2004) (37)
- Rules and schemas in the development and use of English past tense (1982) (35)
- Confessions of a Wayward Chomskyan. (1988) (33)
- The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition : Volume 4 (1995) (32)
- Some Aspects of the Use of Pronouns of Address in Yiddish (1963) (31)
- Issues of Linguistic Typology in the Study of Sign Language Development of Deaf Children (2005) (28)
- On the Nature of Talk to Children (1975) (28)
- Language Typology, Prosody, and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes (2014) (27)
- A crosslinguistic developmental study (1994) (27)
- Antonymic phonetic symbolism in three natural languages. (1968) (27)
- LEARNING TO TALK ABOUT MOVEMENT THROUGH TIME AND SPACE (1988) (26)
- Relations between Paths of Motion and Paths of Vision: A Crosslinguistic and Developmental Exploration 1 (2008) (26)
- Introduction: the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology (1998) (24)
- From Gestures to Signs in the Acquisition of Sign Language 1 (2007) (23)
- Interfaces between linguistic typology and child language research (2007) (21)
- Early Grammatical Development in Several Languages, with Special Attention to Soviet Research. (1968) (21)
- Before the beginning: the development of tools of the trade (2014) (20)
- The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, Vol. 1: The data; Vol. 2: Theoretical issues. (1985) (19)
- Children and Language: They Learn the Same Way All Around the World. (1972) (18)
- The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition : Volume 1: the Data (2017) (18)
- The Fruits of the First Season: A Discussion of the Role of Play in Childhood (1964) (15)
- (1) Passives and Alternatives in Children''s Narratives in English, (1990) (14)
- Psychology in the USSR: an historical perspective (1972) (14)
- 15. Language evolution, acquisition, diachrony: Probing the parallels (2002) (13)
- Language-Specific Input and Early Semantic Development: Evidence From Children Learning Korean (2014) (13)
- IVB. The Development of Relative Clause Functions in Narrative (2013) (12)
- Suggested Universals in the Ontogenesis of Grammar. (1970) (12)
- Thinking for speaking and the construction of evidentiality in language contact (2016) (12)
- What a deaf child needs to see: Advantages of a natural sign language over a sign system (2002) (12)
- A Cross-Cultural Study of Children's Register Knowledge (2014) (11)
- Psychology without linguistics = language without grammar (1981) (11)
- Development of pragmatic uses of subject pronouns in Turkish child language (1986) (11)
- Cognitive and communicative consequences of linguistic diversity (2002) (9)
- The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition : Volume 2: Theoretical Issues (2013) (9)
- Typology and channel of communication: Where do signed languages fit in (2013) (8)
- Cross-Linguistic Comparative Approaches to Language Acquisition (2006) (8)
- Variation in a Crosslinguistic Context (2014) (7)
- Introduction: Why Study Acquisition Crosslinguistically? (2017) (7)
- Issues in the Acquisition of Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian: A Crosslinguistic Comparison (2014) (7)
- Grammar, Gestures, and Meaning in American Sign Language (review) (2006) (6)
- CHAPTER 5 – Soviet Psycholinguistics (1966) (6)
- Handbook of Soviet psychology (1966) (6)
- Signed Languages (2009) (6)
- Effects of Turkish Language Reform on Person Perception (1980) (6)
- Event Representation in Language and Cognition: Putting things in places (2010) (5)
- Transcription as a tool for understanding (2002) (5)
- “Separate Worlds for Girls and Boys”? Views from U.S. and Chinese Mixed-Sex Friendship Groups (2014) (5)
- Grammatical Development in Russian-Speaking Children. (1965) (5)
- The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition : Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts (2014) (5)
- How people move (2004) (4)
- Child language and the bioprogram (1984) (4)
- Encoding Motion Events in Taiwan Sign Language and Mandarin Chinese: Some Typological Implications (2013) (4)
- The Acquisition of Finnish (2014) (4)
- Can Crain constrain the constraints? (1991) (4)
- Afterword. Typologies and language use (2017) (4)
- Toward A History of Soviet Psychology: A Set of Bibliographies (1968) (3)
- A typological perspective on learning to talk about space (1998) (3)
- From the Garden of Eden to the Tower of Babel (2013) (3)
- IVD. Foreshadowing and Wrapping up in Narrative (2013) (3)
- PSYCHOLINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES IN THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN AS NATIVE LANGUAGES. (1965) (2)
- Melissa Bowerman & Penelope Brown (eds), Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability. New York/London: Erlbaum (Taylor & Francis Group), 2008. Pp. 370. ISBN 978-8058-4194-7—0-8058-4194-6 (cloth: alk.paper) and 978-1-4106-1645-6—1-4106-1645-2 (e book). (2008) (2)
- Directory of Soviet Institutions Engaged in Psychological, Psychophysiological, and Psychiatric Research (1966) (2)
- The Acculturation and Development of Language in Mexican American Children. Final Grant Report. (1982) (2)
- Reviews in English of Recent Soviet Psychology: A Bibliography (1966) (2)
- Leopold's Bibliography of Child Language (2021) (2)
- Directory of Soviet Scientists Engaged in Psychological and Psychophysiological Research (1966) (2)
- VA. Becoming a Proficient Speaker (1994) (1)
- Typology and channel of communication (2013) (1)
- From speech with others to speech for self: A case study of "externalized drama" (2014) (1)
- Capturing what remains: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022) (2022) (1)
- Children use canonical sentence sch A crmslinguistic study of word order and infl (1)
- CAN A DEAF CHILD LEARN TO SIGN FROM HEARING PARENTS (2000) (1)
- Leader in child language and cognitive linguistics: Melissa Foster Bowerman (1942-2011) (2012) (1)
- Is spatial language a special case (1993) (1)
- Putting the pieces together: Commentary on “The onset and mastery of spatial language in children acquiring British sign language” by G. Morgan, R. Herman, I. Barriere, and B. Woll (2008) (1)
- IA. Different Ways of Relating Events: Introduction to the Study (2013) (1)
- Imitation and Grammatical Development in Children (2021) (1)
- K. HIRSH-PASEK & R. M. GOLINKOFF, The origins of grammar: evidence from early language comprehension. Cambridge, MA/London, England: MIT Press, 1996. Pp. x+230. (1999) (1)
- Psychology in the U.S.S.R.: An Historical Perspective (1974) (1)
- Thirty Years of Research on Language, Cognition, and Development: The Legacy of Elizabeth Bates (2005) (1)
- SCENES OF THE CHILD AND MORPHEMES OF THE LANGUAGE (2009) (0)
- Obituary: Pioneer of thought-based linguistics: Wallace Chafe (1927–2019) (2019) (0)
- Acknowledgment (2003) (0)
- Frogs Russian Protasova Corpus (2004) (0)
- "Putting things in places": Effekte linguisticher Typologie auf die Sprachentwicklung (2004) (0)
- Urednički savjet Board of consulting editors Wissenschftlicher Beirat (2002) (0)
- Chapter 1. Social motivations for linguistic exploration: A diary study (2017) (0)
- Recent Soviet Conferences on Psychology and Psychophysiology: Topical Summaries (1966) (0)
- Relating Events Narrative Set (2020) (0)
- BOOKS RECEIVED (2006) (0)
- 2 Canonical Locative Constructions in Sign Languages (2012) (0)
- What language is “mentalese”? (2002) (0)
- 13. Child Language Study and Adult Language Acquisition: Twenty Years Later (2012) (0)
- Cog nitive Prerequisites: The Evidence from Children Learning English (2013) (0)
- Appendix: Condensed List of OPs (2013) (0)
- Slobin – Putting Interaction Back Into Child Language 2 come to the foreground of the field (2008) (0)
- The Ontogenesis of Grammer (1973) (0)
- To Open the Mouths of Babes. (1965) (0)
- Handbook of Soviet psychology : prepared for the International Congress of Psychology, Moscow, USSR, August 4-11, 1966 (1966) (0)
- Filtering and Packaging in Narrative 1 (2013) (0)
- Directions in Psycholinguistics. Sheldon Rosenberg (1968) (0)
- Effects of the Turkish Language Reform on Person Perception. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 47. (1976) (0)
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