The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing
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We provide an analysis of holdout and giving (H o&G) behaviours in prelinguistic infants and investigate their relationship with index finger pointing. The frequency of H o&G s 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 H o&G s are a precursor to index finger pointing and that this provides support for social‐pragmatic approaches to communicative development.
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Children's shows + gives may be precursors to points.
“studies suggest that children's shows + gives (i.e., a combined category including both showing and giving gestures) may be precursors to points (Cameron‐Faulkner et al., 2015; Choi et al., 2021)”
From The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes (2025) · cites this paper as Cameron‐Faulkner et al., 2015
There is a positive correlation between the frequency with which mothers acted upon target objects after their infants produced shows + gives and infants' index‐finger pointing frequency at 12 months.
“Cameron‐Faulkner et al. (2015) found a positive correlation between the frequency with which mothers acted upon target objects (e.g., by playing with it) after their infants produced shows + gives and infants' index‐finger pointing frequency at 12 months.”
From The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes (2025) · cites this paper as Cameron‐Faulkner et al. (2015)
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“…by reducing referential ambiguity in unclear or novel speech, by reinforcing infants' behaviors during interactions, and/or by increasing the infants' attention to toys (e.g., Baldwin et al., 1996; Cameron‐Faulkner et al., 2015; Yu et al., 2019; Ger et al., 2018; Grassmann & Tomasello, 2010).”
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- Authors
- Cameron‐Faulkner, T., Theakston, A., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Cameron‐Faulkner, Thea
- Venue
- Infancy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-05-08
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 576-586
- ISSN
- 1525-0008 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7078
- OpenAlex
- W2148652886
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 37 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 33.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Infancy (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Keywords
- prelinguistic infants, communication development, social interaction, infant social cognition
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