While following a speaker’s gaze to the target referent is clearly important for word learning, the speaker’s face also holds valuable communicative information. From the eyes, a child can gather information about who the speaker is addressing, what she may be referring to, and her affective response to the situation. By focusing on the speaker’s mouth, the child stands to gain multimodal information about the label being provided as well as information about how those sounds are produced. Typically developing infants focus a great deal of attention on a speaker’s mouth