Children's engagement during shared reading of ebooks and paper books (reading
medium) has been compared in numerous studies. Findings vary, making it difficult to advise …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Background Developmental psychology is a vibrant and rapidly growing field of psychology
that seems, with each passing year, to become more and more exciting, comprehensive …

Where does common ground come from? When do infants and young children start to make
use of common ground as they communicate? How do they assess what their interlocutor …

To represent the complexity of a visually perceived event, viewers need to attend selectively
to different aspects of the event and its associated entities. Spoken descriptions of such …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

Adult production is influenced by the larger linguistic contexts in which words appear.
Children, like adults, hear words in recurring linguistic contexts, but little is known on the …

Young children's engagement in shared reading refers to the extent of children's attention,
behavioral involvement, and enjoyment during shared reading and has been treated as an …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Children acquire language in conversation. This is where they are exposed to the
community language by more expert speakers. This exposure is effectively governed by …