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Marta Casla; Ana Moreno-Núñez; Florencia Alam; Celia Rosemberg – Language and Education, 2025
When interacting with young children, adults often self-repeat their own utterances that vary in sequences of adjacent utterances called variation sets (VS) (Küntay and Slobin 1996). These repetitions benefit children's linguistic development because they emphasize form and meaning. This paper analyzes the use of VS during group interaction and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Video Technology, Preschool Teachers
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Perla B. Gámez; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira; Paola Pinzón-Henao – Child Development, 2025
This longitudinal study (data collected from 2019 to 2023) examines the relation between Spanish-English bilingual Latino toddlers' (n=46; F=22; M=24) early gesture production (Mage=18.67 months; SD[subscript age]=1.02) and later language skills (M[subscript age]=36.87 months; SD[subscript age]=0.81). Video recordings at child-age 18-months…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Florencia Alam; Marta Casla; María Ileana Ibañez; Celia Renata Rosemberg – First Language, 2025
The study adopts a multimodal perspective, looking at adults' use of gestures in variation sets (VS; i.e. sequences of partial self-repetitions occurring in successive utterances of varying form) addressed to Spanish-learning toddlers in adult-child interactions. We seek to address the following question: Do adults make simultaneous use of VS and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Communication
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Saunders, Emily; Quinto-Pozos, David – Second Language Research, 2023
Studies have shown that iconicity can provide a benefit to non-signers during the learning of single signs, but other aspects of signed messages that might also be beneficial have received less attention. In particular, do other features of signed languages help support comprehension of a message during the process of language learning? The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis
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McCune, Lorraine; Lennon, Elizabeth M.; Greenwood, Anne – First Language, 2021
Pointing has long been considered influential in language acquisition. Certain pre-linguistic vocal expressions may hold even greater value in addressing the transition to language. The goal of the present study is longitudinal evaluation of early communicative development, addressing the influence of pre-linguistic gestures and vocal expressions.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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Salo, Virginia C.; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Frenkel, Tahl I.; Bowman, Lindsay C.; Rowe, Meredith L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Infants' pointing is associated with concurrent and later language development. The communicative intention behind the point -- i.e., imperative versus declarative -- can affect both the nature and strength of these associations, and is therefore a critical factor to consider. Parents' pointing is associated with both infant pointing and infant…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Nonverbal Communication, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Mathew, Mili; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine – First Language, 2018
Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (e.g., deictic, iconic) from a very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This study investigated the use of "stroke-defined non-referential" 'beat' gestures in a story-retelling and an exposition task by twelve 6-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Phonology
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Tenenbaum, Elena J.; Amso, Dima; Righi, Giulia; Sheinkopf, Stephen J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Previous work has demonstrated that social attention is related to early language abilities. We explored whether we can facilitate word learning among children with autism by directing attention to areas of the scene that have been demonstrated as relevant for successful word learning. We tracked eye movements to faces and objects while children…
Descriptors: Autism, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Attention
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Miller, Jennifer L.; Lossia, Amanda; Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Gros-Louis, Julie – First Language, 2017
Given the dependent nature of parent-infant interactions necessary for language development, it is important to understand how context may influence these interactions. This study examines how contextual variables influence communicative, cognitive and social measures of parent-infant interactions. Specifically, how do feedback toys and…
Descriptors: Toys, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition, Infants
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Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.; Dimitrova, Nevena; Baumann, Stephanie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
Typically developing (TD) children refer to objects uniquely in gesture (e.g., point at a cat) before they produce verbal labels for these objects ("cat"). The onset of such gestures predicts the onset of similar spoken words, showing a strong positive relation between early gestures and early words. We asked whether gesture plays the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Parent Child Relationship, Vocabulary
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Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.; Dimitrova, Nevena – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Research with typically developing children suggests a strong positive relation between early gesture use and subsequent vocabulary development. In this study, we ask whether gesture production plays a similar role for children with autism spectrum disorder. We observed 23 18-month-old typically developing children and 23 30-month-old children…
Descriptors: Prediction, Vocabulary Development, Nonverbal Communication, Expressive Language
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Yuksel, Peri; Brooks, Patricia J. – First Language, 2017
Many ancestral languages (AL) are at imminent risk of extinction due to societal changes that pressure minority communities to assimilate with dominant cultures and forego usage of their AL. This study aimed to encourage caregiver-child dyads to converse in Lazuri, an endangered AL in Rize, Turkey. Dyads (N = 59; child age M = 30.7 months, range…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Nonverbal Communication
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Li, Yingxia; Gao, Ying; Zhang, Dongyu – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This paper intends to investigate the effectiveness of a new course pattern--TED-motivated English Public Speaking Course in EFL teaching in China. This class framework adopts TED videos as the learning materials to stimulate students to be a better speaker. Meanwhile, it aims to examine to what extent the five aspects of language skills are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Public Speaking, English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness
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Olson, Janet; Masur, Elise Frank – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Twenty-nine infants aged 1;1 and their mothers were videotaped while interacting with toys for 18 minutes. Six experimental stimuli were presented to elicit infant communicative bids in two communicative intent contexts--proto-declarative and proto-imperative. Mothers' verbal responses to infants' gestural and non-gestural communicative bids were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Mothers, Labeling (of Persons)
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Cramér-Wolrath, Emelie – Sign Language Studies, 2015
This qualitative, longitudinal, single-case study analyzes naturalistic interactions in Swedish Sign Language. Multiple interactions took place mainly between a mother and a deaf twin on twelve occasions. The participants' actions and language structure are examined as the child progressed from ten to forty months of age. The results are presented…
Descriptors: Swedish, Sign Language, Longitudinal Studies, Teaching Methods
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