… It is argued that the development of symbolic function can have a marked … childhood through
its role in providing a common cognitive model that underpins novice/expert communication …

… signs requires very rich cognitive capacities. We argue that a somewhat simpler cognitive
skill set suffices, a view that supports a more incremental model of the emergence of struc- …

… how infants intentionally communicate when pointing (what their communicative goal is)
and why (what their motives are). A “rich” account would predict that infants should distinguish …

… the nature of communication, language, and cognition and discuss how … children's
communicative development. BASIC CONCEPTS: COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, AND …

… suggest that gestural communication would have been a crucial prerequisite for the emergence
of language, mainly based on the evidence of large communication repertoires and their …

… signs to evolutionary cognitive archaeology as a complement to current models drawn from
cognitive … We do not set out to offer an entirely new theory of the origin of language, but rather …

… use of communication”). As all the children in this study had significant cognitive and motor
… reach the level of intentional communication, the Communication Matrix provided the most …

… We know little about the sources and development in infancy of skills in navigating finely
temporal and contingent interactional sequences such as conversational turn taking. Do such …

… for predicting and supporting language development from studies of children with pre- or …
use of children with these brain lesions at 18 months predicted later language development; …

… review findings about the cognitive, linguistic, social … of development in early childhood
through which children acquire the elements of ToM. I discuss determinants of ToM development, …