Early pragmatic expectations in human infancy

There is no room for pragmatic expectations about communicative interactions in core cognition. Spelke takes the combinatorial power of the human language faculty to overcome the limits of core cognition. The question is: Why should the combinatorial power of the human language faculty support infan...

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Published in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2024-06, Vol.47, p.e143, Article e143
Main Authors: Tauzin, Tibor, Jacob, Pierre, Gergely, György
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Babies
Child Development - physiology
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition - physiology
Communication
Humans
Identity formation
Infant
Language
Language acquisition
Language Development
Nonverbal Communication - psychology
Sound
Speech
Toys
Triplets
Verbal communication
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Summary:There is no room for pragmatic expectations about communicative interactions in core cognition. Spelke takes the combinatorial power of the human language faculty to overcome the limits of core cognition. The question is: Why should the combinatorial power of the human language faculty support infants' pragmatic expectations not merely about speech, but also about nonverbal communicative interactions?
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X23003230