Table 2.

Adults' and children's devices for constituting a domain of scrutiny.

	9–14 months	15–17 months	18–22 months	23–24 months
Adult	Initiates job by setting up a conditional relevance for orienting toward the domain of scrutiny. Devices: Where question (prosodic emphasis on interrogative/search) or summons (“HERE”) Marking search space (book) by moving and lifting it Providing time for exploring the materiality of the book/Scrutinizing the search space Rendering general features of depictions visible Demonstrating the use of the book	Book-reading setting: Job is skipped as soon as the child understands the book as a potential domain of scrutiny
Child	Responds by orienting toward and exploring the domain of scrutiny	Play setting: Initiates job by setting up a conditional relevance. Devices: Directing the adult's attention toward distant entities by establishing diverging focuses Pursuing a response/Reestablishing conditional relevancies