%0 Journal Article %T Early pragmatic expectations in human infancy. %A Tauzin T %A Jacob P %A Gergely G %J Behav Brain Sci %V 47 %N 0 %D 2024 Jun 27 %M 38934442 %F 21.357 %R 10.1017/S0140525X23003230 %X There is no room for pragmatic expectations about communicative interactions in core cognition. Spelke takes the combinatorial power of the human language faculty to overcome the limits of core cognition. The question is: Why should the combinatorial power of the human language faculty support infants' pragmatic expectations not merely about speech, but also about nonverbal communicative interactions?