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  • Front Cover; The Functions of Language and Cognition; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Structure and Function: A Comparison of Two Views of the Development of Language and Cognition; INTRODUCTION; CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURALTHEORIES; CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONALTHEORIES; ISSUES DIVIDING STRUCTURAL ANDFUNCTIONAL VIEWPOINTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. The Development of Skills; A SKILL IS A SCHEMA; FORMAL STRUCTURES DO NOT DEVELOP; THE FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE OFSKILLS; DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION; IMITATION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.
  • Chapter 3. Concepts and ClassificationTWO TRADITIONS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; ABSTRACTION THEORY: CHARACTERISTICS AND CRITICISMS; PRINCIPLES OF A MODERN FUNCTIONAL APPROACH; PIAGET'S STRUCTURAL THEORY OF CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT; PIAGET'S THEORY CONSIDERED IN LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Children's Thinking: The Search for Limits; POSSIBLE LIMITS ON CHILDREN'S THINKING; PIAGET'S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH TESTINGPIAGET'S THEORY; EXPLAINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOGICAL REASONING: WHAT ARE THE LIMITS?; A CLOSING THOUGHT; REFERENCES.
  • Chapter 5. Meaning and SemanticsINTRODUCTION; THEORIES OF MEANING; A BROAD-SPECTRUM FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MEANING; FINAL DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Language Acquisition: Linguistic Structure and Rule-Governed Behavior; PERSPECTIVES ON THE MODERN STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; A SOCIAL-LEARNING PARADIGM FORTHE STUDY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Referential Communication; INTRODUCTION; LISTENER ANALYTIC SKILLS; TASK ANALYTIC SKILLS; MESSAGE ANALYTIC SKILLS; REFERENTIAL COMMUNICATION AND ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
  • Chapter 10. Applying a Cognitive Behavioral View to Clinical and Social ProblemsA COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR; THE DELIBERATE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS; DEVELOPING CONCEPTUAL SKILLS; TEACHING ADJUSTMENT SKILLS; THE DELIBERATE DEVELOPMENT OFSELF-CONTROL; REFERENCES; Author Index; Subject Index.