Publications

Publication details [#50019]

Tomasello, Michael, Ulf Liszkowski and Malinda Carpenter. 2007. Reference and attitude in infant pointing. Journal of Child Language 34 (1) : 1–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | communication | gesture | pre-verbal age | reference

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The findings of this study indicate that one year old infants' declarative pointing constitutes a full communicative act, meant to share with other people both attention to a referent and a particular attitude concerning that referent.