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I am interested in problems in the broader history
and theory of childhood. In particular, I am interested in the
general analysis of how economic, technology, and other societal
conditions affect the practices and personalities children and
adults, and the general nature of childhood; in how much can be
called normal development, as opposed to contingent development. I
am also interested in the effects of the very great variability
reported by historians and anthropologists, upon the basic nature of
theory in the field of development. As a more concrete interest, I
am interested in the nature of conceptual categories, and in
particular in the degree of individual variation and disorganization
these may show in individuals, as well as in the concepts used in a
field like developmental psychology itself.
Recent publications
M. Maratsos (2000). More
overregularizations after all. Journal of Child
Language, 28, 32-54.
G. Deak and M. Maratsos (1998). On having complex
representations of things: Preschoolers use multiple
words for objects and people. Developmental
Psychology, 34, 4224-280.
M. Maratsos (1998). Grammatical acquisition. In W. Damon
(Ed.), Handbook of child psychology. New York: Wiley. Revised April 2006 |
