Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of illustrations ix
4. List of tables xi
5. Preface (with acknowledgments) xiii
6. Part I. Background for questions and findings inviting a paradigm shift
7. Chapter 1 From the last century history of ideas on children’s nature and intersubjectivity 3
8. Chapter 2 Recent related findings making a difference 29
9. Chapter 3 Introduction to child’s steps to speech in ontogeny and questions about cultural evolution 57
10. Part II. On the origin of (pre)speech and efficient infant learners
11. Chapter 4 On language evolution and imitative learning 89
12. Chapter 5 On cultural evolution of mother-centred learning 119
13. Chapter 6 On prosocial behaviour in adult apes and young children 147
14. Part III. Intersubjective steps to speech and mind-reading in ontogeny
15. Chapter 7 From newborns’ imitation 163
16. Chapter 8 From object-oriented joint attention and other-centred infant learning 189
17. Chapter 9 On children in conversation and in self-dialogue 209
18. Chapter 10 When conversation partners become virtual co-authors of what the other is saying 245
19. Chapter 11 When the intersubjective mirror has been biologically broken 271
20. Chapter 12 The intersubjective steps in retrospect and guidance, and prospects for further research 289
21. Glossary 305
22. Bibliography 309
23. Author index 337
24. Subject index 343