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

This classic psychological case study focuses on a talkative child’s emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving problems. Scholars offer multifaceted linguistic and psychological analyses of two-year-old Emily's bedtime conversations and pre-sleep monologues over 15 months.