Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

The aim of this paper is twofold: to propose that conversation is the distinctive feature of
Homo sapiens' communication; and to show that the emergence of modern language is tied …

Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprising failures of
perspective‐taking in communication, suggesting that perspective‐taking may be relatively …

Any form of overt communication, be it gestural or linguistic, involves pragmatic skills. This
article investigates the social–cognitive foundations of pragmatic development from infancy …

Inspired by early proposals in philosophy, dominant accounts of language posit a central
role for mutual knowledge, either encoded directly in common ground, or approximated …

How do speakers design what they say in order to communicate effectively with groups of
addressees who vary in their background knowledge of the topic at hand? Prior findings …

One core question in studies of language processing is the extent to which interlocutors
engage in real-time communicative perspective-taking. Current evidence suggests that both …

Adults design utterances to match listeners' informational needs by making both “generic”
adjustments (eg, mentioning atypical more often than typical information) and “particular” …

Perspective‐taking, which is important for communication and social activities, can be
cultivated through joint actions, including musical activities in children. We examined how …

An important feature of language production is the flexibility of lexical selection; producers
could refer to an animal as chimpanzee, chimp, ape, she, and so on. Thus, a key question …