The present study reports empirical longitudinal data on the early stages of language development. The main hypothesis is that the output systems of speech and gesture may draw on underlying brain mechanisms common to both language and motor functions. We analyze the spontaneous interaction with their parents of three typically-developing children (2 M, 1 F) videotaped monthly at home between 10 and 23 months of age. Data analyses focused on the production of actions, representational and deictic gestures and words, and gesture-word combinations. Results indicate that there is a continuity between the production of the first action schemes, the first gestures and the first words produced by children. The relationship between gestures and words changes over time. The onset of two-word speech was preceded by the emergence of gesture-word combinations. The results are discussed in order to integrate and support the evolutionary and neurophysiological views of language origins and development.
2020. Coarticolazione temporale nelle combinazioni di gesti e parole: dati longitudinali in bambini nati a termine e pretermine nei primi due anni di età. RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA :2 ► pp. 547 ff.
Gampe, Anja, Jens Brauer & Moritz M. Daum
2016. Imitation is beneficial for verb learning in toddlers. European Journal of Developmental Psychology 13:5 ► pp. 594 ff.
Gullberg, Marianne & Steven G. McCafferty
2008. INTRODUCTION TO GESTURE AND SLA: TOWARD AN INTEGRATED APPROACH. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30:02
Gullberg, Marianne & Bhuvana Narasimhan
2010. What gestures reveal about how semantic distinctions develop in Dutch children's placement verbs. Cognitive Linguistics 21:2
Kritikos, Ada, Jessica Lister, Samuel Sparks, Kate Sofronoff, Andrew Bayliss & Virginia Slaughter
2020. To have and to hold: embodied ownership is established in early childhood. Experimental Brain Research 238:2 ► pp. 355 ff.
Longobardi, Emiddia, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud & Pietro Spataro
2012. Individual differences in the prevalence of words and gestures in the second year of life: Developmental trends in Italian children. Infant Behavior and Development 35:4 ► pp. 847 ff.
Marentette, Paula, Paola Pettenati, Arianna Bello & Virginia Volterra
2016. Gesture and Symbolic Representation in Italian and English‐Speaking Canadian 2‐Year‐Olds. Child Development 87:3 ► pp. 944 ff.
Pettenati, Paola, Kazuki Sekine, Elena Congestrì & Virginia Volterra
2012. A Comparative Study on Representational Gestures in Italian and Japanese Children. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 36:2 ► pp. 149 ff.
Pezzulo, G.
2012. The “Interaction Engine”: A Common Pragmatic Competence Across Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Interactions. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 4:2 ► pp. 105 ff.
Rinaldi, P. & C. Caselli
2009. Lexical and Grammatical Abilities in Deaf Italian Preschoolers: The Role of Duration of Formal Language Experience. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 14:1 ► pp. 63 ff.
Rodríguez, Fernando G. & Silvia Español
2022. The Transition from Early Bimodal Gesture-Word Combinations to Grammatical Speech. In Moving and Interacting in Infancy and Early Childhood, ► pp. 207 ff.
Saksida, Amanda, Roberta Rebesco, Arianna Colombani, Sara Pintonello, Eleonora Tonon, Andrea Martina Santoro & Eva Orzan
2024. The timeline of non-vocal and vocal communicative skills in infants with hearing loss. Frontiers in Pediatrics 11
Sandler, Wendy
2009. Symbiotic symbolization by hand and mouth in sign language. Semiotica 2009:174
Stefanini, Silvia, Arianna Bello, Maria Cristina Caselli, Jana M. Iverson & Virginia Volterra
2009. Co-speech gestures in a naming task: Developmental data. Language and Cognitive Processes 24:2 ► pp. 168 ff.
Stefanini, Silvia, Maria Cristina Caselli & Virginia Volterra
2007. Spoken and gestural production in a naming task by young children with Down syndrome. Brain and Language 101:3 ► pp. 208 ff.
2022. Integrating Gestures and Words to Communicate in Full-Term and Low-Risk Preterm Late Talkers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:7 ► pp. 3918 ff.
Özer, Demet & Tilbe Göksun
2020. Gesture Use and Processing: A Review on Individual Differences in Cognitive Resources. Frontiers in Psychology 11
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