Dan I. Slobin, Ph.D.

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Bowerman, Brown, Eisenbeiss, Narasimhan, & Slobin – Typology & development
Bowerman, M., Brown, P., Eisenbeiss, S., Narasimhan, B., & Slobin, D. I. (2002, April). Putting things in places: Developmental consequences of linguistic typology (644K). Symposium, Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University.

Hoiting & Slobin – Advantages of a natural sign language over a sign system
Hoiting, N., & Slobin, D. I. (2002). What a deaf child needs to see: Advantages of a natural sign language over a sign system (217K). In R. Schulmeister & H. Reinitzer (Eds.) Progress in sign language research. In honor of Siegmund Prillwitz / Fortschritte in der Gebärdensprachforschung. Festschrift für
Siegmund Prillwitz (pp. 267-278). Hamburg: Signum.

Hoiting & Slobin – The Berkeley Transcription System (BTS) for sign language
Slobin, D. I., Hoiting, N., Anthony, M., Biederman, Y., Kuntze, M., Lindert, R., Pyers, J., Thumann, H., Weinberg, A. (2001). Sign language transcription at the level of meaning components: The Berkeley Transcription System (BTS) (241K). Sign Language & Linguistics, 4, 63-96.

Kuntay & Slobin – Putting interaction back into child language
Küntay, A., & Slobin, D. I. (2002). Putting interaction back into child language: Examples from Turkish (216K). Psychology of Language and Communication, 6:5-14.

Slobin – Child language and the evolution of language
Slobin, D. I. (in press). From ontogenesis to phylogenesis: What can child language tell us about language evolution? (717K) In J. Langer, S. T. Parker, & C. Milbrath (Eds.), Biology and Knowledge revisited: From neurogenesis to psychogenesis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Slobin – Cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity
Slobin, D. I. (2003). Language and thought online: Cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity (314K). In D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Language in mind: Advances in the investigation of language and thought (pp. 157-191). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Slobin – Iconicity and linguistic representation of motion events
Slobin, D. I. (in press). Linguistic representations of motion events: What is signifier and what is signified? (269K) In C. Maeder, O. Fischer, & W. Herlofsky (Eds.) (2005) Iconicity Inside Out: Iconicity in Language and Literature 4. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Slobin – Linguistic typology of motion events
Slobin, D. I. (2004). The many ways to search for a frog: Linguistic typology and the expression of motion events (491K). In S. Strömqvist & L. Verhoeven (Eds.), Relating events in narrative: Vol. 2: Typological and contextual perspectives (pp. 219-257).

Slobin – Mind, code, and text
Slobin, D. I. (1997). Mind, code, and text (885K). In J. Bybee, J. Haiman, & S. A. Thompson, (Eds.), Essays on language function and language type: Dedicated to T. Givón (pp. 437-467).

Slobin – Paths of motion and paths of vision
Slobin, D. I. (forthcoming). Relations between paths of motion and paths of vision: A crosslinguistic and developmental exploration (416K). In V. Gathercole (Ed.) (title to be announced).

Slobin – Relating narrative events in translation
Slobin, D. I. (in press). Relating events in translation (273K). In D. Ravid & H. B. Shyldkrot (Eds.). Perspectives on language and language development: Essays in honor of Ruth A. Berman. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Slobin – Sign language typology and acquisition
Slobin, D. I. (in press). Issues of linguistic typology in the study of sign language development of deaf children (229K). In B. Schick, M. Marschark, & P. E. Siple (Eds.), Sign language development by deaf children: Where have we been, and where are we going? Oxford University Press.

Slobin – Thinking for speaking
Slobin, D. I. (1996). From "thought and language" to "thinking to speaking" (945K). In J. J. Gumperz & S. C. Levinson (Eds.), Rethinking linguistic relativity (pp. 70-96.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Slobin & Hoiting – NSF final report – sign language acquisition (227K)

Slobin & Hoiting – NSF proposal – sign language acquisition (116K)

Slobin, Hoiting et al – Classifiers in sign language acquisition
Slobin, D. I., Hoiting, N., Kuntze, K., Lindert, R., Weinberg, A., Pyers, J., Anthony, M., Biederman, Y., Thumann, H. (2003). A cognitive/functional perspective on the acquisition of "classifiers" (292K). In K. Emmorey (Ed.), Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages (pp. 271-296). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Berkeley Transcription System – Manual (2001)
Slobin, D. I., Hoiting, N., Anthony, M., Biederman, Y., Kuntze, M., Lindert, R., Pyers, J., Thumann, H., Weinberg, A. (2001). The Berkeley Transcription System (BTS) – Manual (5,034K). Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley.

Ozcaliskan & Slobin – Manner of motion in Turkish and English
Özçaliskan, S., & Slobin, D. I. (2003). Codability effects on the expression of manner of motion in Turkish and English (266K). In A. S. Özsoy, D. Akar, M. Nakipoglu-Demiralp, E. Erguvanli-Taylan, & A. Aksu- Koç (Eds.), Studies in Turkish linguistics (pp. 259-270). Istanbul: Bogaziçi University Press.

Slobin – SRCD Master Lecture – Crosslinguistic diversity
Slobin, D. I. (2001, April). Puzzles of crosslinguistic diversity in form-meaning mappings (951K). Master Lecture, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.