The ability to coordinate our actions with those of others is crucial for our success as
individuals and as a species. Progress in understanding the cognitive and neural processes …

Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either
individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of …

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of
the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

The current article proposes a new theory of infant pointing involving multiple layers of
intentionality and shared intentionality. In the context of this theory, evidence is presented for …

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 …

Previous research has shown that observing others' actions can affect individual
performance of the same actions. In the present study, we developed a new paradigm to …

I make three related proposals concerning the development of receptive communication in
human infants. First, I propose that the presence of communicative intentions can be …

Infants point for various motives. Classically, one such motive is declarative, to share
attention and interest with adults to events. Recently, some researchers have questioned …