Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies

By G. Butterworth. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar (2006, background): “According to Tomasello (in print) chimpanzees lack this ability (see also Butterworth 1998, 2003; Povinelli and Vonk 2003).”
A new look at infant pointing. (2007, background): “In the months around the first birthday, and before they begin acquiring language in earnest, most infants in Western culture begin pointing, with some evidence that this is a widespread, if not universal, pattern cross-culturally (Butterworth, 2003).”
Infants’ prelinguistic communicative acts and maternal responses: Relations to linguistic development (2014, unknown): “These gestures, pointing in particular, have been shown to relate to language development (Brooks & Meltzoff, 2008; Butterworth, 1998, 2003; Butterworth & Morissette, 1996; Capirci, Iverson, Pizzuto, & Volterra, 1996; Goldin-Meadow, 2007; LeBarton, 2010; Masur, 1982, 1983; Olson & Masur, 2011;…”
The Development of Pointing: From Personal Directedness to Interpersonal Direction (2010, background): “Theories of how pointing develops can be grouped in terms of whether it is assumed that pointing is social to begin with [e.g., Butterworth, 2003], or, alternatively, that infants point first as part of their own activity and gradually realize the social significance of their action for others…”
The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing (2015, background): “In addition to being a species-specific behaviour, index finger pointing has been linked to language development, thereby assuring its status as a gesture par cognitive excellence in the literature (Bates, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1975; Butterworth, 2003; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005).”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “Western scientists portrayed pointing with the index finger as a human species-specific gesture adapted for referential communication (Butterworth 2003; Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1989; Povinelli & Davis 1994; Povinelli et al. 2003).”
Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing (2011, background): “The human pointing gesture is a species-unique, species-universal communicative device that paves the way for early language (Bates, Camaioni & Volterra, 1975; Butterworth, 2003; Tomasello, Carpenter & Liszkowski, 2007).”
Correspondence Mapping Induced State and Action Metrics for Robotic Imitation (2007, background): “See [9] and [24] for robotic examples and [8], [12], and [14] for ethological and psychological aspects.”
'Proximal' and 'distal' in language and cognition : Evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch (2008, background): “(Butterworth, 2003:9) Clark (1996:160) extends Peirce’s work by defining asignal as “the presentation of a sign by one person to mean something for another”.”