Al contrario de las creencias comunes, los niños (as) poseen una capacidad de interpretar
de manera sutil su entorno y posicionarse de manera crítica respecto a los modos de vida y …

This chapter reviews the literature on preschool children's sensitivity to cognitive
accessibility in selecting linguistic forms to realize referents in speech. Both spontaneous …

In this article, I review experimental evidence for the dependence of 2-to 5-year-olds'
linguistic referential informativeness on cues to common ground (CG) and propose a …

This study explores the patterns of gesture and speech combinations from the babbling
period to the one-word stage and the temporal alignment between the two modalities. The …

Speakers of all ages spontaneously gesture as they talk. These gestures predict children's
milestones in vocabulary and sentence structure. We ask whether gesture serves a similar …

Speakers convey meaning not only through words, but also through gestures. Although
children are exposed to co‐speech gestures from birth, we do not know how the developing …

Much is known about young children's use of deictic gestures such as pointing. Much less is
known about their use of other types of communicative gestures, especially iconic or …

New referents are typically introduced into adult discourse with lexical nouns. This makes
new referents maximally clear for listeners, and helps the listeners direct their attention …

To gain a full understanding of the steps children follow in acquiring language, researchers
must pay attention to their hands as well as their mouths–that is, to gesture. We first define …

The overall aim of this study is to contribute with knowledge about newly arrived children's
participation in communicative events and the communicative tools that are being practiced …