When speakers talk, they gesture. The goal of this review is to investigate the contribution
that these gestures make to how we communicate and think. Gesture can play a role in …

This target article presents a theory of human cultural learning. Cultural learning is identified
with those instances of social learning in which intersubjectivity or perspective-taking plays a …

Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition
appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic …

We have been thinking about joint attention—what it is, where it comes from, and its role in
human development—for almost 2 decades now. Most of the research has focused on two …

This paper reports 2 studies that explore the role of joint attentional processes in the child's
acquisition of language. In the first study, 24 children were videotaped at 15 and 21 months …

The H&H theory is developed from evidence showing that speaking and listening are
shaped by biologically general processes. Speech production is adaptive. Speakers can …

The present study explored gender differences in emerging language skills in 13,783
European children from 10 non‐English language communities. It was based on a synthesis …

Recognizing the essential nature of reader and text, the transactional theory requires an
underlying metaphor of organic activity and reciprocity. This chapter discusses the reading …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

The children talk about what they are seeing and doing makes it possible for caregivers to
understand many utterances that would otherwise be uninterpretable. As the child …