Do language abilities develop in isolation? Are they mediated by a unique neural substrate,
a “mental organ” devoted exclusively to language? Or is language built upon more general …

Gestures are central to human cognition and constitute a pervasive element of human
communication across cultures; even congenitally blind individuals use gestures when they …

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be
able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children …

The basic idea behind this work is that communication is essentially a cooperative activity
between two or more people in which the meanings of each transaction are constructed by …

Teaching and learning involve more than just language. The teachers' use of gestures, the
classroom spaces they occupy and the movements they make, as well as the tools they use …

The Indexical Hypothesis describes how sentences become meaningful through grounding
their interpretation in action. We develop support for the hypothesis by examining how …

This study investigates whether addressees visually attend to speakers' gestures in
interaction and whether attention is modulated by changes in social setting and display size …

EEG was recorded as adults watched short segments of spontaneous discourse in which the
speaker's gestures and utterances contained complementary information. Videos were …

We propose a framework for explaining difference in difficulty of various pragmatic
phenomena. In particular, we investigate the ability to comprehend direct, indirect, deceitful …

Perhaps the greatest shift in thinking in the last two decades in Child Language has been to
view the young child as increasingly active in her ability to communicate well before she has …