The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions,
seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities. We know that very …

Unter normalen Umständen erwerben alle Kinder ihre Muttersprache. Meist lernen sie in der
Kindheit nur diese eine Sprache. Diese erste Sprache bleibt in der Regel die wichtigste …

Where does common ground come from? When do infants and young children start to make
use of common ground as they communicate? How do they assess what their interlocutor …

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 …

Findings are presented from the first randomized control trial of the effects of encouraging
symbolic gesture (or “baby sign”) on infant language, following 40 infants from age 8 months …

This study examined two facets of the use of social cues for early word learning in parent–
child dyads, where children had an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or were typically …

Adults rely on both speech and gesture to provide children with information pertinent to new
word meanings. Parents were videotaped introducing new objects to their children (aged 1; …

The present study focused on parents' social cue use in relation to young children's
attention. Participants were ten parent–child dyads; all children were 36 to 60 months old …

Children produce iconic gestures conveying action information earlier than the ones
conveying attribute information (Özçalışkan, Gentner, & Goldin-Meadow, 2014). In this study …

Purpose This study examined the relationship between semantic enrichment and naming in
children asked to extend taught words to untrained exemplars. Method Sixteen typically …