JOURNAL ARTICLES
Nelson, X.J., Taylor, A.H., Cartmill, E.A., Lyn, H., Robinson, L.M., Janik, V., & Allen, C. (2023). Joyful by nature: approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non-human animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A. (2022) Gesture. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51, 445-473 [pdf]
Steinberg, D.L., Lynch, J.W., and Cartmill, E.A. (2022) A robust tool kit: first report of tool use in crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus). American Journal of Primatology, 84 (11), e23428 [pdf]
Eckert, J., Winkler, S. L., & Cartmill, E. A. (2020). Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing. Biology Letters, 16(9), 20200370. [pdf]
Bishop, A. & Cartmill, E.A. (2020) The body of hierarchy: hand gestures on classic Maya ceramics and their social significance. Ancient Mesoamerica, 1-15. [pdf]
Cartmill, M., Brown, K., Atkinson, C., Cartmill, E. A., Findley, E., Gonzalez-Socoloske, D., Hartstone-Rose, A., & Mueller, J. (2020) Marsupial gaits and the evolution of diagonal-sequence walking. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171(2), 182–197. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A. & Hobaiter, C., (2019) Developmental origins of primate gesture: 100 years in the making. Animal Cognition 22(4), 453-459. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A. & Hobaiter, C., (2019) Gesturing towards the future: Cognition, big data, and the future of comparative gesture research. Animal Cognition, 22(4), 597-604. [pdf]
Cartmill E.A., Rissman, L., Novack, M.A., Goldin-Meadow, S. (2017) The development of iconicity in children’s co-speech gesture and homesign. Language, Interaction and Acquisition 8(1), 42-68. [pdf]
R.W. Byrne, Cartmill, E.A., Genty, E., Graham, K.E., Hobaiter, C., Tanner, J. (2017) Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Animal Cognition, 20(4), 755-769. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., (2016) Mind the gap: assessing and addressing the word gap in early education. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS), 3(2), 185-193. [pdf]
Trueswell, J. C., Lin, Y., Armstrong, B., Cartmill, E.A., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Gleitman, L. (2016) Perceiving referential intent: dynamics of reference in natural parent-child interactions. Cognition, 148, 117-135. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., Hunsicker, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2014) Pointing and naming are not redundant: children use gesture to modify nouns before they can modify nouns in speech. Developmental Psychology, 50(6), 1660-1666. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., Armstrong, B., Gleitman, L., Goldin-Meadow, S., Medina, T. N., & Trueswell, J. (2013) Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary 3 years later. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(28), 11278-11283. [pdf]
Gasser, B., Cartmill, E.A., & Arbib, M. A. (2013) Ontogenetic ritualization of primate gesture as a case study in dyadic brain modeling. Neuroinformatics, 12(1), 93-109. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., Beilock, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2012) A word in the hand: action, gesture, and mental representation in humans and non-human primates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B., 367, 129-143. [pdf]
Tebbich, S., Teschke, I., Cartmill, E., Stankewitz, S. (2012) Use of a barbed tool by an adult and a juvenile woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida). Behavioural Processes, 89, 166-171. [pdf]
Teschke, I., Cartmill, E.A., Stankewitz, S., Tebbich, S. (2011) No evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches. Animal Behaviour. 82, 945-956. (Selected as research highlight: Nature, 478, 431) [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., Pruden, S., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2010) The role of parent gesture in the development of children’s spatial language. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 70-77. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., & Byrne, R.W. (2010) Semantics of orangutan gesture: determining structure and meaning through form and use. Animal Cognition. 13, 793-804. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., & Byrne, R.W. (2007) Orangutans modify their gestural signaling according to their audience’s comprehension. Current Biology. 17, 1345-1348. [pdf]
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cartmill, E.A. (in press) Using the Senses in Non-human Communication. New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley. [pdf]
Cartmill, M., Atkinson, C., Brown, K., Cartmill, E.A., Gonzalez-Socoloske, D., & Hartstone-Rose, A. (in press) How thylacines walked. In History and Mystery of the Thylacine. B. Holmes and G. Linnard (Eds.) CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. [pdf]
Foster, J.G., & Cartmill, E.A. (2018) Managing the Multiplicity of Meaning. In Co-operative Engagements in Intertwined Semiosis: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodwin. D. Favareau (Ed.) University of Tartu Press. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A. & Goldin-Meadow, S., (2015) Gesture. In APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. D. Matsumoto, H. C. Hwang, & M. G. Frank (Eds.) American Psychological Association (APA). pp. 307-333. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., & Maestripieri, D. (2012) Communication as a cognitive specialization in primates. In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.) Oxford University Press. pp. 166-193. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., Demir, Ö.E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2012) Studying gesture. In The Guide to Research Methods in Child Language. E. Hoff (Ed.) Blackwell. pp. 208-225. [pdf]
Cartmill, E.A., & Byrne, R.W. (2011) Addressing the problems of intentionality and granularity in non-human primate gesture. In Integrating Gestures. G. Stam, M. Ishino (Eds.) John Benjamins. pp. 15-26. [pdf]
COMMENTARIES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Cartmill E.A., Foster J.G., Krakauer D.C., and Sharp O. (2020) Diverse Intelligence. InterPlanetary Transmissions: Stardust, Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute’s Second InterPlanetary Festival, eds. Krakauer D.C., McShea C.L. (Santa Fe Institute Press, Santa Fe). [Speakers listed alphabetically]
Cartmill, E.A. (2015) Ape gesture de-coded: evidence and inference. Commentary on Scott-Phillips, T. Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language. Current Anthropology, 56(1), 66-67.