Pasquale Rinaldi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pasquale Rinaldi plays a role.
Articles
Gestural symbolic strategies in children with Down syndrome Gesture 19:2/3, pp. 299–334 | Article
2020 In early communicative development, children with Down syndrome (DS) make extensive use of gestures to compensate for articulatory difficulties. Here, we analyzed the symbolic strategies that underlie this gesture production, compared to that used by typically developing children. Using the same… read more
From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 216–238 | Chapter
2020 We review major developmental evidence on the continuity from action to gesture to word and sign in human children, highlighting the important role of caregivers in the development of multimodal communication. In particular, the basic issues considered here and contributing to the current debate… read more
From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 216–238 | Article
2018 We review major developmental evidence on the continuity from action to gesture to word and sign in human children, highlighting the important role of caregivers in the development of multimodal communication. In particular, the basic issues considered here and contributing to the current debate… read more
Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article
2017 What is linguistic communication and what is it not? Even if we often convey meanings through visible bodily actions, these are rarely considered part of human language. However, co-verbal gestures have compositional structure and semantic significance, while highly iconic structures are… read more