Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months

By Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell

The studies in this volume measure the various behaviors that are displayed as infants and mothers share their attention on an outside object: joint engagement, following gazes and points, gestures, imitation of actions, and language comprehension and production. The authors show how infants follow a progression from sharing to following to directing others' attention and behavior, and how these skills are related to early communicative competence. Their results have important implications for theories of social-cognitive and language development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226094618
• ISBN13: 9780226094618
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"