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Things are what they do: Katherine Nelson's functional approach to language and cognition

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Tomasello,  Michael       
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Tomasello, M. (2002). Things are what they do: Katherine Nelson's functional approach to language and cognition. Journal of Cognition and Development, 3(1), 5-19. doi:10.1207/S15327647JCD0301_2.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-07D6-D
Abstract
This article attempts to summarize Katherine Nelson's theoretical and empirical contributions to the ontogenetic study of language and cognition. Nelson's approach has consistently emphasized the function of language and linguistic concepts in children's larger conceptual and social lives and, conversely, how children's emerging understanding of the function of linguistic symbols in larger conceptual and social structures makes language acquisition possible in the first place. This approach has led to an especially fruitful body of theoretical and empirical work.