Caretaker-infant attachment is a complex but well-recognized adaptation in humans. An
early instance of (or precursor to) attachment behavior is the dyadic interaction between …

Despite its long oral and unrecorded history, literature means for most people printed texts
and reading. Yet shades of this preliterate past remain and continue to affect our responses …

From the moment of birth, infants embark on a developmental journey characterized by
continual transformations in the ways they act in and reflect upon their worlds. Infants must …

This chapter contends that classical attachment theory, and the contemporary transformation
of it into a theory of maternal external regulation of the neonates physiology and emotional …

When talking to infants, human mothers use vocal patterns that are unusual by the standards
of normal conversation. Mothers, as well as fathers and adults who are not parents, speak …

Language exists for the purpose of communicating intentions and knowledge, and it is
learned in dialogue from infancy. It can only be passed on by people who respond to the …

Infants, like adults and many animals, move with rhythmic gestures that express motive
states and changes of emotion and mood. But the communications of babies have a special …

The deep structural diversity of languages suggests that our language capacities are not
based on any single template but rather on an underlying ability and motivation for infants to …

We are sentient agents or subjects that know by moving and anticipating the sensible effects
of movement (Sherrington, 1906; Bernstein, 1967; Gibson, 1979), and we share the mental …

What is the social function of babbling? An important function of prelinguistic vocalizing may
be to elicit parental behavior in ways that facilitate the infant's own learning about speech …