A new look at infant pointing.

By Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Ulf Liszkowski. Child Development, 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning (2012, background): “In particular, pointing has been described as a precursor of spoken language (Goldin-Meadow 2007; Tomasello et al. 2007).”
Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy (2010, background): “It is possible that this unique morphology serves a human specific function, namely, to make reading gaze direction easier for our conspecifics (Tomasello et al., 2007).”
Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development (2017, background): “Over their first 12 months, infants develop several foundational communication skills that support positive language development and predict later language trajectories, such as gaze following (Brooks & Meltzoff 2005), pointing (Tomasello et al. 2007), and gesturing (Iverson & Goldin-Meadow 2005).”
Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing (2011, background): “Tomasello et al. (2007) have argued and presented evidence that infant pointing is based on more general social-cognitive skills of shared intentionality, such as the ability to form joint intentions and joint attention with others in nonlinguistic activities.”
Infants’ prelinguistic communicative acts and maternal responses: Relations to linguistic development (2014, background): “Furthermore, gestures such as pointing establish joint reference, which is particularly important for language development (e.g., Bruner, 1975; Tomasello et al., 2007).”
Fourteen-Month-Olds Know What “We” Have Shared in a Special Way (2008, methodology): “In this study, therefore, we used a paradigm that was similar to, but importantly different from, that of Tomasello and Haberl (2003) and Moll and Tomasello (2007).”
Pointing the Unknown Words (2016, background): “In partic-a ular, human infants use pointing as a fundamental communication tool (Tomasello et al., 2007).”
Socio-Pragmatics and Attention: Contributions to Gesturally Guided Word Learning in Toddlers (2008, background): “…children have a rather sophisticated understanding of the referential intent of a variety of sociopragmatic cues from a very early age, and that little more than this knowledge is necessary to learn new words in the natural course of experience (e.g., Tomasello, 1992, 2003; Tomasello et al., 2007).”
Y Qualification Main task Y Return N N Y User qualified ? N Feedback Pass ? Pass ? Annotator training Annotating images (2017, background): “Pointing is a natural way for humans to communicate that emerges early during cognitive development [69].”