Our previous article referred to an essential “fire” that conversational norms seek to protect, and we we will now unpack this idea and its relation to language further below. We noted two ...

Human beings are the only known species to practice joint attention, the coordination of two or more people to focus on another third object. Linguists theorize this quality is what allows us to use ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open explores how tablet use by toddlers with poor language development is influenced by interference with joint attention. In this process, two people focus ...