… The idea that symbols and symbol manipulation emerge from infants’ physical and social
interactions with the world, prior to their first words and linguistic activity, has been actively …

… However, on the basis of the parallels in content that we do find across children, we feel
justified in concluding that these children are talking about the same things whether in the …

… theory that children have theories, hence the double use of the term. We think that cognitive
development in young children is like theory change in science. As children develop they …

… of the emergence of symbols in natural cognition and communication as well as in artificial
systems. … We ask: how does an infant learn to communicate with ungrounded sign vehicles (…

… conditions, we can then investigate whether the learning patterns exhibited by a model
resemble empirically-established phenomena in children's linguistic and cognitive development. …

… four children and … }symbols}is a result of the continuous and historically grounded re-organization
of the dynamic communication system. Symbols do not emerge only from a cognitive re-…

… The data presented until now allow us to be optimistic about the possibility of seeing some
common traits in different behavior and cognitive domains in the course of infant development…

… A test case to this puzzle is how infants communicate … infants indeed communicate with
deeper social cognitive skills and cooperative motives prior to language. Infants communicate …

… Ss were 26 infants tested longitudinally at 13 and 20 mo, responding to the same set of
familiar objects in realistic vs abstract versions. Word comprehension was unaffected by the …

… of symbolic communication that children engage in with other persons— and the internalization
of these into the kind of flexible and powerful cognitive representations characteristic of, …