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Motoric Characteristics of Representational Gestures Produced by Young Children in a Naming Task
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Pettenati, Paola; Stefanini, Silvia; Volterra, Virginia – Journal of Child Language, 2010
This study explores the form of representational gestures produced by forty-five hearing children (age range 2 ; 0-3 ; 1) asked to label pictures in words. Five pictures depicting objects and five pictures depicting actions which elicited more representational gestures were chosen for more detailed analysis. The range of gestures produced for each…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Child Language, Young Children, Pictorial Stimuli
Bilingual Signed and Spoken Language Acquisition from Birth: Implications for the Mechanisms Underlying Early Bilingual Language Acquisition.
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Petitto, Laura Ann; Katerelos, Marina; Levy, Bronna G.; Gauna, Kristine; Tetreault, Karine; Ferraro, Vittoria – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Studied the case of bilingual acquisition across two modalities to examine diverging hypotheses about the types of knowledge underlying early bilingualism. Three children acquiring Langues des Signes Quebecoise and French, and three children acquiring French and English were videotaped over a year while novel and familiar speakers of each child's…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Foreign Countries, French
Competition on the Face: Affect and Language in ASL Motherese.
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Reilly, Judy Snitzer; Bellugi, Ursula – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Addresses how affective facial expression interacts with the linguistic forms in American Sign Language (ASL) motherese. The article presents data from both cross-sectional and longitudinal interaction from 15 deaf mothers signing with their deaf toddlers. Findings indicate a shift from affect to grammar at about the child's second birthday. (59…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Cross Sectional Studies, Data Analysis