The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech (Advances in Consciousness Research)

The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication page......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
Preface (with acknowledgments)......Page 14
Note......Page 23
PART I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift......Page 24
From the last century history of ideas on children's nature and intersubjectivity......Page 26
Recent related findings making a difference......Page 52
Introduction to child's steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution......Page 80
PART II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners......Page 112
On language evolution and imitative learning......Page 114
On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning......Page 142
On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children......Page 170
PART III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny......Page 186
From newborns' imitation......Page 190
From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning......Page 212
On children in conversation and in self-dialogue......Page 232
When conversation partners become virtual co-authors of what the other is saying......Page 268
When the intersubjective mirror has been biologically broken......Page 294
The intersubjective steps in retrospect and guidance, and prospects for further research......Page 312
Glossary......Page 328
Bibliography......Page 332
Author index......Page 360
Subject index......Page 366
Advances in Consciousness Research......Page 375