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Experimentally Induced Increases in Early Gesture Lead to Increases in Spoken Vocabulary
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LeBarton, Eve Sauer; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Raudenbush, Stephen – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Differences in vocabulary that children bring with them to school can be traced back to the gestures they produced at the age of 1;2, which, in turn, can be traced back to the gestures their parents produced at the same age (Rowe & Goldin-Meadow, 2009a). We ask here whether child gesture can be experimentally increased and, if so, whether the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Oral Language
Working Together to Make Sense of the Past: Mothers' and Children's Use of Internal States Language in Conversations about Traumatic and Nontraumatic Events
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Stark, Emily N.; Lukowski, Angela F.; Rademacher, Jennifer; Van Abbema, Dana L.; Ackil, Jennifer K. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Mother-child conversations about a devastating tornado and about 2 nontraumatic events were examined to determine whether there were (a) differences in use of internal states language when talking about traumatic and nontraumatic events and (b) similarities in mothers' and children's use of internal states language. At Session 1, which took place…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication