Book Review: Origins of human communication

Bates E. Benigni L. Bretherton I. Camaioni L. Volterra V. (1979). The emergence of symbols: Cognition and communication in infancy. New York: Academic Press.

Diessel H. (2006). Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar. Cognitive Linguistics, 17, 463–489.

Evans N. Levinson S. (2009). The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 429–448.

Goldin-Meadow S. (2000). Beyond words: The importance of gesture to researchers and learners. Child Development, 71, 231–239.

Kidd E. Holler J. (2009). Children’s use of gesture to resolve lexical ambiguity. Developmental Science, 12, 903–913.

Nettle D. Dunbar R. (1997). Social markers and the evolution of reciprocal exchange. Current Anthropology, 38, 93–99.

Pika S. Nicoladis E. Marentette P. (2009). How to order a beer: Cultural differences in the use of conventional gestures for numbers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 70–80.

Senghas A. Kita S. Özyürek A. (2004). Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science, 305, 1779–1782.

Warneken F. Tomasello M. (2006). Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees. Science, 311, 1301–1303.