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Name:	Michael Tomasello
Institution:	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	The New Psychology of Language Language Development: The Essential Readings The New Psychology of Language, Volume 2 Beyond Nature-Nurture
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	The New Psychology of Language, Volume 2 Language Development: The Essential Readings
Dissertation Director * of:	'Piecemeal Paths to Grammatical Productivity': How children become productive with basic event constructions (Michael Sharwood-Smith, Author)
Academic Paper Abstract:	Young children's sensitivity to listener knowledge and perceptual context in choosing referring expressions Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: ‘What experimental data can tell us?’ Two-Year-Olds Use Primary Sentence Accent to Learn New Words The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study* Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions* The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction Young children's sensitivity to new and given information when answering predicate-focus questions German–English-speaking children's mixed NPs with ‘correct’ agreement Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task Two-year-old children differentiate test questions from genuine questions Children's ability to answer different types of questions

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