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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Core cognition is limited in its capacity for complex, pragmatic expectations.
  • The human language faculty possesses combinatorial power, potentially overcoming these cognitive limits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore why the combinatorial power of language faculty supports infants' pragmatic expectations.
  • To investigate the extension of pragmatic expectations beyond speech to nonverbal communicative interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of cognitive and linguistic development.
  • Review of existing literature on infant cognition and language acquisition.

Main Results:

  • The combinatorial power of language may enable infants to form sophisticated pragmatic expectations.
  • These expectations appear to encompass both verbal and nonverbal communicative contexts.

Conclusions:

  • The human language faculty's structure is crucial for developing nuanced pragmatic understanding in infants.
  • Infants' pragmatic expectations are not confined to linguistic input but extend to broader social communication.