Narratives from the Crib

With a New Foreword by Emily Oster, the Child in the Crib

Edited by Katherine Nelson

Foreword by Emily Oster

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$32.00 • £25.95 • €29.00

ISBN 9780674023635

Publication Date: 09/30/2006

Short

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 figures, 19 tables

World

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PSYCHOLOGY: General

This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative child’s emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving problems. In wide-ranging essays, scholars offer multifaceted linguistic and psychological analyses of two-year-old Emily’s bedtime conversations with her parents and pre-sleep monologues, taped over a fifteen-month period. In a foreword written for this new edition, Emily, now an adult, reflects on the experience of having been a research subject without knowing it.

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