“…The first part of the story is a rough-and-ready recapitulation of linguistic development, strenuously avoiding pretheoretic representationalism based on the written language bias (for introductions from several perspectives, see Bruner, 1983;Cowley, 2007bCowley, , 2011bCowley, , 2012bKrueger, 2013;Raimondi, 2014;Reed, 1995;Roberts, 2002). Preverbal infants' interactions with their caretakers involve rich emotional expression and plenty of vocal activity.…”