The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

Most language usage is interactive, involving rapid turn-taking. The turn-taking system has a
number of striking properties: turns are short and responses are remarkably rapid, but turns …

Language, humans' most distinctive trait, still remains a 'mystery'for evolutionary theory. It is
underpinned by a universal infrastructure—cooperative turn-taking—which has been …

The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

Additional evidence comes from interactions with prelinguistic children; for example, one
year olds can communicate about absent entities or indicate a searched for item, by pointing …

Human communication displays a striking contrast between the diversity of languages and
the universality of the principles underlying their use in conversation. Despite the importance …

To date, pragmatic theory and practice have largely drawn on theories and models based on
observations of communicative practices in the West and tacitly treated as culturally neutral …

Human joint action is inherently cooperative, manifested in the collaborative efforts of
participants to minimize communicative trouble through interactive repair. Although …

Social play is a frequent behaviour in great apes and involves sophisticated forms of
communicative exchange. While it is well established that great apes test and practise the …