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Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
At the one-word stage children use gesture to "supplement" their speech ("eat" + point at cookie), and the onset of such supplementary gesture-speech combinations predicts the onset of two-word speech ("eat cookie"). Gesture thus signals a child's readiness to produce two-word constructions. The question we ask here…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Linguistics, Language Processing, Language Acquisition