In development, children often use gestures to communicate
before they use words. The question is whether these gestures merely precede
language development or are fundamentally tied to it. I examined four children
making the transition from single words to two-word combinations and found that
gesture had a tight relation to the children’s lexical and syntactic
development. First, a great many of the lexical items that each child produced
initially in gesture later moved to that child’s verbal lexicon. Second,
children who were first to produce gesture-plus-word combinations conveying two
elements in a proposition were also first to produce two-word combinations.
Changes in gesture also predict changes in language, suggesting that early
gesture may facilitate future developments in language.
Author(s) Details
Amir Yousef Farahmandi Author(s) Details
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
View Book :- http://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/book/202
No comments:
Post a Comment