In 21 essays on communicative gesturing in the first two years of life, this vital collection
demonstrates the importance of gesture in a child's transition to a linguistic system …

The gesture systems developed by 10 deaf children, each incapable of acquiring a
conventional spoken language naturally and not exposed to a conventional manual …

In recent years developmental psycholinguistics have taken into consideration the period
preceding the acquisition of the verbal language, stressing the fundamental role of gestures …

We previously reported that deaf children of hearing parents can develop a gestural
communication system with some of the observed properties of early child language. In the …

We pose the following question here: What factors underlie the emergence of the
developmental milestones of language acquisition? Because this question is vast, we must …

Describes a 14-year program of research, the focus of which was the capacity of normal
infants to incorporate gestural symbols into their earliest expressive vocabularies. Explores …

Children who produce one word at a time often use gesture to supplement their speech,
turning a single word into an utterance that conveys a sentence-like meaning ('eat'+ point at …

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 …

This study explores the role that gesture plays in the earliest stages of language learning.
We describe how one-word speakers use gesture in combination with speech in their …

To gain a full understanding of the steps children follow in acquiring language, researchers
must pay attention to their hands as well as their mouths–that is, to gesture. We first define …