The use of the pointing gesture is one of the first ways to communicate with the world. This
gesture emerges before the second year of life and it is assumed to be the first form of …

Children's ability to query others is remarkable because it attests to their coordination of a
range of complex cognitive capacities and because it allows them to initiate and redirect …

At around 1 year of age, human infants display a number of new behaviors that seem to
indicate a newly emerging understanding of other persons as intentional beings whose …

Like every other aspect of human development, language development is characterized by
variation. Historically this variation has been largely ignored by students of child language …

Results are reported for stylistic and developmental aspects of vocabulary composition for 1,
803 children and families who participated in the tri-city norming of a new parental report …

It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is
grounded in its shared nature. Joint attention to objects and events in the world provides the …

Index-finger pointing is a means of making definite reference that is intimately linked to
gesture and speech. This chapter examines evidence for its species specificity to humans …

This study explores the interplay between gestures and words in the early vocabularies of
12 normally develo** Italian children at 16 and 20 months of age. Focusing on …

Most young children make significant progress in learning language during the first 4 years
of life. Delays or differences in patterns of language acquisition are sensitive indicators of …

This study explores the communicative use of the gestural and vocal modalities by normally
develo** Italian children during the transition from one-to two-word speech. We analysed …