The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing

Thea Cameron‐Faulkner, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello

2015-05-08articleInfancy140 citationsgreen

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Child and Animal Learning Development Language Development and Disorders Hearing Impairment and Communication

Abstract

We provide an analysis of holdout and giving (Ho&G) behaviours in prelinguistic infants and investigate their relationship with index finger pointing. The frequency of Ho&Gs at 10 and 11 months along with the length of the following social interaction correlated with index finger pointing at 12 months. We conclude that Ho&Gs are a precursor to index finger pointing and that this provides support for social‐pragmatic approaches to communicative development.

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