A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

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 …

The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions,
seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities. We know that very …

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 …

Abstract Language use is full of subsentential shifts of context, a phenomenon dramatically
illustrated in conversation where non-sentential utterances displaying seamless shifts …

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 …

Theories of language development—informed largely by studies of Western, middleclass
infants—have highlighted the language that caregivers direct to children as a key driver of …

The goal of this paper is to widen the lens on language to include the manual modality. We
look first at hearing children who are acquiring language from a spoken language model …

Toddlers learn object names in sensory rich contexts. Many argue that this multisensory
experience facilitates learning. Here, we examine how toddlers' multisensory experience is …

Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the
challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically …