Narratives from the Crib Paperback by Katherine Nelson

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2006-10-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674023635
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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 analyses of two-year-old Emily’s bedtime conversations with her parents and pre-sleep monologues, taped over a fifteen-month period. In a foreword written for this new edition, Emily, now an adult, reflects on the experience of having been a research subject without knowing it.

About the Author

Katherine Nelson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.