Publications [#351945] of Michael Tomasello

Journal Articles

1. Tomasello, M, Could we please lose the mapping metaphor, please?, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 24 no. 6 (January, 2001), pp. 1119-1120 [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/06/15)

   Abstract:
   Although Bloom gives more credit to social cognition (mind reading) than do most other theorists of word learning, he does not go far enough. He still relies fundamentally on a learning process of association (or mapping), neglecting the joint attentional and cultural learning skills from which linguistic communication emerges at one year of age.