The following reference list comprises publications by project personnel that are relevant to the project. If you encounter any difficulties in accessing these publications, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.


Ciesielski, S. (2015). Language development and socialisation in Sherpa [PhD thesis]. University of Melbourne. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/57202

Dahmen, J., & Blythe, J. (2022). Calibrating recipiency through pronominal reference. Interactional Linguistics, 2(2), 190–224. https://doi.org/10.1075/il.22005.dah

Davidson, L. (2022). Using categories to assert authority in Murrinhpatha-speaking children’s talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 55(1), 18–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2022.2026161

Davidson, L., & Kelly, B. F. (2021). The pragmatics of managing children’s distress in Murrinhpatha, a traditional Australian language. Journal of Pragmatics, 184, 167–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.08.008

de León, L. (1998). The emergent participant: Interactive patterns in the socialization of Tzotzil (Mayan) infants. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 8(2), 131–161.

de León, L. (2011a). Calibrando la atención: Directivos, adiestramiento y responsabilidad en el trabajo doméstico de niños mayas zinacantecos. In Susana Frisancho, M. T. Moreno, P. Ruiz Bravo, & V. Zavala (Eds.), Aprendizaje, cultura y desarrollo: Una aproximación interdisciplinaria (pp. 81–108).

de León, L. (2011b). Language socialization and multiparty participation frameworks. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. B. Schieffelin (Eds.), The handbook of language socialization (1st ed., pp. 81–111). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444342901.ch4

de León, L. (2017). Emerging learning ecologies: Mayan children’s initiative and correctional directives in their everyday enskilment practices. Linguistics and Education, 41(1), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2017.07.003

Duranti, A., Ochs, E., & Schieffelin, B. B. (Eds.). (2011). The handbook of language socialization. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444342901

Ellis, E., Green, J., Kral, I., & Reed, L. (2019). Mara yurriku: Western Desert sign languages. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 89–111.

Ellis, E. M., Green, J., & Kral, I. (2017). Family in mind: Socio-spatial knowledge in a Ngaatjatjarra/Ngaanyatjarra children’s game. Research on Children and Social Interaction, 1(2), 164–198. https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.28442

Goodwin, M. H. (2017). Haptic sociality: The embodied interactive construction of intimacy through touch. In C. Meyer, J. Streeck, & J. S. Jordan (Eds.), Intercorporeality: Emerging socialities in interaction (pp. 73–102). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210465.003.0004

Goodwin, M. H., & Cekaite, A. (2019). Embodied family choreography: Practices of control, care, and mundane creativity (First issued in paperback). Routledge.

Green, J. (2019). Embodying kin-based respect in speech, sign, and gesture. Gesture, 18(2–3), 370–395. https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.20015.gre

Green, J., Hodge, G., & Kelly, B. F. (2022). Two decades of sign language and gesture research in Australia: 2000–2020. Language Documentation & Conservation, 16, 32–78.

Haviland, J. B. (1998). Early pointing gestures in Zincantán. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 8(2), 162–196. https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1998.8.2.162

Haviland, J. B. (2014). Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign from Chiapas, Mexico. In M. Seyfeddinipur & M. Gullberg (Eds.), From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance (pp. 245–288). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.188.12hav

Hodge, G., Barth, D., & Reed, L. W. (2023). Auslan and Matukar Panau: A modality-agnostic look at quotatives. In The Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) (pp. 85–125). University of Hawaii Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24744

Kremer-Sadlik, T. (2013). Time for family. In E. Ochs & T. Kremer-Sadlik (Eds.), Fast-forward family: Home, work, and relationships in middle-class America. University of California Press.

Kremer-Sadlik, T., & Morgenstern, A. (2022). The reflective eater: Socializing French children to eating fruits and vegetables. Appetite, 172, 105954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.105954

Merlan, F., & Rumsey, A. (1991). Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518218

Morgenstern, A. (2014). Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf children. In I. Arnon, M. Casillas, C. Kurumada, & B. Estigarribia (Eds.), Trends in Language Acquisition Research (Vol. 12, pp. 139–156). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.12.12mor

Morgenstern, A. (2022). Early pointing gestures. In A. Morgenstern & S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Gesture in language: Development across the lifespan (pp. 47–89). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000269-003

Morgenstern, A., Blondel, M., Beaupoil-Hourdel, P., Benazzo, S., Boutet, D., Kochan, A., & Limousin, F. (2018). The blossoming of negation in gesture, sign and oral productions. In M. Hickmann, E. Veneziano, & H. Jisa (Eds.), Sources of variation in first language acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners (Vol. 22, pp. 339–364). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.22.17mor

Morgenstern, A., Caët, S., & Limousin, F. (2016). Pointing and self-reference in French and French Sign Language. Open Linguistics, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0003

Ochs, E., & Kremer-Sadlik, T. (2015). How postindustrial families talk. Annual Review of Anthropology, 44(1), 87–103. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014027

Ochs, E., & Shohet, M. (2006). The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006(111), 35–49.

Ochs, E., Solomon, O., & Sterponi, L. (2005). Limitations and transformations of habitus in child-directed communication. Discourse Studies, 7(4–5), 547–583. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445605054406

Reed, L. W. (2020). “Switching caps”: Two ways of communicating in sign in the Port Moresby deaf community, Papua New Guinea. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 6(1), 13–52. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.19010.ree

Reed, L. W., & Rumsey, A. (2020). Sign languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. In A. Kendon (Ed.), Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province (pp. 141–184). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.226

Rumsey, A. (2015). Language, affect and the inculcation of social norms in the New Guinea Highlands and beyond. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 26(3), 349–364. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12157

Rumsey, A. (2019). Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru. Open Linguistics, 5(1), 49–68. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0003

Rumsey, A., Reed, L. W., & Merlan, F. (2020). Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax. Frontiers in Communication, 5, 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00019

Rumsey, A., San Roque, L., & Schieffelin, B. B. (2013). The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea). In E. L. Bavin & S. Stoll (Eds.), Trends in Language Acquisition Research (Vol. 9, pp. 133–182). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.9.06rum

Schieffelin, B. B., & Ochs, E. (1984). Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories and their implications. In R. Shweder & R. Levine (Eds.), Culture Theory (pp. 276–320). Cambridge University Press.