Links between Social Understanding and Early Word Learning: Challenges to Current Accounts.

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Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, result): “Although many positive results were obtained with infants in the second year of life (for reviews, see Baldwin & Moses, 2001; Carpenter, Nagell, & Tomasello, 1998; Meltzoff, 2002), negative results with younger infants were, here again, difficult to interpret.”
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. (2005, background): “guides early word learning (7,8), governs toddlers' social learning and problem-solving attempts (9, 10, 11) and informs children's understanding of cultural instruments and artifacts (12, 13).”
How language does (and does not) relate to theory of mind: A longitudinal study of syntax, semantics, working memory and false belief (2005, background): “For instance, children’s understanding of intention likely assists them in understanding which object an adult is referring to, hence providing a putative link between mental state understanding and vocabulary development (Baldwin & Moses, 2001).”
Infants track action goals within and across agents. (2007, background): “For one, by these ages, children distinguish their own desires (Repacholi & Gopnik, 1997), attentional states ( Baldwin & Moses, 2001 ) and means-ends relations (Gergely et al., 2002) from those of other people.”