The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Toward a Skillful Psychology....Pages 1-17
Waves and Streams of Symbolization: Notes on the Development of Symbolic Capacities in Young Children....Pages 19-42
Introduction....Pages 43-45
The Use of Communication Tasks to Investigate Depiction of Spatial Relationships in Young Children’s Drawings....Pages 47-52
Intellectual Realism in Adults’ and Children’s Copies of Cubes and Straight Lines....Pages 53-63
The Conservatism of Children’s Drawing Strategies: At what Level does Stability Persist?....Pages 65-69
Children’s Representations in Drawing and Speech: Content, Structure and Context....Pages 71-80
Young Children’s Planning Strategies and Early Principles of Spatial Organization in Drawing....Pages 81-87
Individual Drawing Styles of Three Children from Five to Seven Years....Pages 89-96
Children’s Sensitivity to Aesthetic Properties of Line Drawings....Pages 97-104
Introduction....Pages 105-107
Microethology of Spelling Behaviour in Normal and Dyslexic Development....Pages 109-121
Phonological Impairment in Italian: Acquired and Developmental Dyslexia....Pages 123-130
Interaction of Symbol Systems in Reading....Pages 131-136
Bi-Alphabetism and Word Recognition....Pages 137-147
The Development of Strategies in the Acquisition of Symbolic Skills....Pages 149-154
The Development of Phoneme Segmentation Skills in Young Children....Pages 155-162
Understanding the Alphabetic System....Pages 163-170
Patterns of Writing Errors in the Framework of an Information-Processing Model of Writing....Pages 171-177
The Psychological Productivity of Inflectional and Derivational Morphemes....Pages 179-185
Symbolic Skills in the Deaf: Some Recent Developments in Research....Pages 187-197
Meaning in Sign: Recalling Events in British Sign Language and English....Pages 199-205
Early Sign Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development....Pages 207-214
The Semantics of Early Deaf Communication: Object Acquisitive Volitionals....Pages 215-220
The Development of Symbolic Play in Young Deaf Children....Pages 221-231
Language, Deafness and Mathematical Reasoning....Pages 233-239
Is Music a Symbolic Skill? Introduction....Pages 241-243
The Perception of Musical Pitch - A Sense of Scale....Pages 245-249
The Initial Identification of Tonal Centres in Music....Pages 251-261
Towards a Contour-Pitch Continuum Theory of Memory for Melodies....Pages 263-271
Reproduction and Representation of Musical Rhythms: The Effects of Musical Skill....Pages 273-282
A Preliminary Investigation of Motor Programming in Piano Performance as a Function of Skill Level....Pages 283-292
Logical Development: Introduction....Pages 293-295
What Preschoolers know about Animate and Inanimate Objects....Pages 297-326
Knowledge-Derived Categorization in Young Children....Pages 327-334
Perception of Inclusion in Collections of Objects....Pages 335-342
Semantic and Cognitive Factors in Class-Inclusion and Co-Extension Performance....Pages 343-350
On the Generalizability of Conservation: Context and Transformation....Pages 351-356
Maps and Navigation: Introduction....Pages 357-358
Maps and Memorability....Pages 359-367
Children’s Plan-Drawings of their Houses....Pages 369-379
Mental Imagery and Mental Maps....Pages 381-390
Spatial Representations of Taxi Drivers....Pages 391-405
Symbolic Skill Acquisition in Language: Introduction....Pages 407-411
The Role of Symbolic Thought in Language Development....Pages 413-422
On the Acquisition of the Notion of Types of Flying Objects: Support for Prototype-Based Theories of Word Meaning Development....Pages 423-430
A Study of Children’s Writings in Non-Instructional Settings....Pages 431-443
Hidden Meanings: The Role of Covert Conceptual Structures in Children’s Development of Language....Pages 445-470
Second Language Acquisition: Introduction....Pages 471-472
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition....Pages 473-483
Similarities and Differences between First and Second Language Acquisition: Setting the Parameters of Universal Grammar....Pages 485-499
The Predictive Role of the Theories of Markedness and Language Transfer in Second Language Acquisition....Pages 501-510
Cerebral Organization in Bilingual and Deaf Subjects....Pages 511-518
The Acquisition of Mathematical Skills: Introduction....Pages 519-521
Numerical Representation from Infancy to Middle Childhood: What Develops?....Pages 523-533
Young Children’s Ideas about the Written Number System....Pages 535-542
Cognitive Factors in Children’s Arithmetic Errors....Pages 543-550
Effects of Reference Domain in Children’s Comprehension of Coordinate Graphs....Pages 551-560
Exploring Difficulties in Transforming between Natural Language and Image Based Representations and Abstract Symbol Systems of Mathematics....Pages 561-570
Abstracts: Poster displays and other papers given at the conference....Pages 571-603
Back Matter....Pages 605-623