DeepDyve eBooks - Gesture in language: Development across the lifespan.

Morgenstern, Aliyah; Goldin-Meadow, Susan

Pages: 3 –17

This introductory chapter provides a brief description about the book and its subsequent chapters. The book focuses on the forms, functions, and roles of gesture in language across the lifespan, as it is deployed in a multitude of skillful variations in the collective coordination of...

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Pointing in gesture and sign.

Cooperrider, Kensy; Mesh, Kate

Pages: 21 –46

Human communication is composite. It involves the voice, face, hands, and the rest of the body. It integrates categorical elements and gradient ones, highly conventional and ad hoc forms, and both arbitrary symbols and motivated signals. This is true of spoken communication, and it is true—in...

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Early pointing gestures.

Morgenstern, Aliyah

Pages: 47 –89

Pointing can be described as the first communicative gesture or a gesture used to complement speech, a symbolic resource of its own, or incorporated into sign languages in a grammaticalized form and used, for example, as the equivalent of demonstrative or personal pronouns. This chapter focuses...

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Early gesture predicts later language development.

Rowe, Meredith L.; Wei, Ran; Salo, Virginia C.

Pages: 93 –111

Young children communicate via gesture before they communicate through speech; research has documented strong associations between early gesture use and later language development. This chapter summarizes the literature on relations between early gesture production and comprehension and language...

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Interaction among modalities and within development.

Capirci, Olga; Caselli, Maria Cristina; Volterra, Virginia

Pages: 113 –133

This chapter describes the relations among different modalities of expression during the very critical phases of early child development, between 6 and 36 months of age. It presents herein developmental evidence for the continuity from actions to gestures to words in child language acquisition...

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Constructing a system of communication with gestures and words.

Clark, Eve V.; Kelly, Barbara F.

Pages: 137 –156

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the early use of gesture + word combinations that underpin children's early constructions and ongoing communication....

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Embodying language complexity: Co-speech gestures between age 3 and 4.

Beaupoil-Hourdel, Pauline

Pages: 157 –183

This chapter presents an overview of the gesture forms that young children use to convey negation and opposite stance after they start using speech extensively. It adopts a developmental, constructivist, usage-based and interactionist approach to analyze the productions of two children between...

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Gesture can facilitate children’s learning and generalization of verbs.

Hall, Casey; Wakefield, Elizabeth; Goldin-Meadow, Susan

Pages: 185 –202

Verbs are particularly challenging to learn, but gesture offers a promising avenue through which verb learning can be improved in children. Previous work has documented the flexible manner in which children naturally use gesture. These gestures not only reflect and predict changes in children's...

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On the codevelopment of gesture and monologic discourse in children.

Colletta, Jean-Marc

Pages: 205 –242

This chapter offers an overview of the main results about children's gesture production in the context of monologic discourse in a series of studies conducted over the past 20 years. It presents data that demonstrate that children as early as 6 years old start to use the whole range of gestures...

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Understanding how gestures are produced and perceived.

Cook, Susan Wagner

Pages: 243 –267

What are the processes that underlie speech and gesture in communication? Does this link develop in the language system, or is it the result of more general cognitive processes? How can researchers design studies to understand a complex system like gesture? Current research provides evidence for...

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