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Direct linkAussems, Suzanne; Kita, Sotaro – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes two types of generalization. We taught 3- to 4-year-olds novel locomotion verbs. Children who saw iconic manner gestures during training generalized more verbs to novel events ("first-order generalization") than children who saw interactive gestures…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Verbs, Generalization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Dowling, Natalie; Demir-Lira, Ö. Ece; Prieto, Pilar; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 2021
A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non-Hispanic, 87%) investigated whether the early production of non-referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to referential iconic gestures, in parent-child naturalistic interactions from 14 to 58 months old predicts narrative abilities at age 5. Results revealed that only non-referential…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Ability, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
McCrink, Koleen; Caldera, Christina; Shaki, Samuel – Child Development, 2018
American and Israeli toddler-caregiver dyads (mean age of toddler = 26 months) were presented with naturalistic tasks in which they must watch a short video (N = 97) or concoct a visual story together (N = 66). English-speaking American caregivers were more likely to use left to right spatial structuring than right to left, especially for…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Attention, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Kirk, Elizabeth; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen J.; Fletcher, Ben C. – Child Development, 2013
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 to 20 months. Half of the mothers were trained to model a target set of gestures to their infants. Frequent measures were taken of infant language…
Descriptors: Infants, Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Child Language
