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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
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MacNeilage, Peter F.; Davis, Barbara L.; Kinney, Ashlynn; Matyear, Christine L. – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence for four major design features of serial organization of speech arising from comparison of babbling and early speech with patterns in ten languages. Maintains that no explanation for the design features is available from Universal Grammar; except for intercyclical consonant repetition development, perceptual-motor learning seems…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Influences, Language Acquisition