The Changing Role of Iconicity in Non-Verbal Symbol Learning: A U-Shaped Trajectory in the Acquisition of Arbitrary Gestures

By L. Namy, Aimee L. Campbell, Michael Tomasello. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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3. Lisa M. Oakes
4. Robin L. Thompson
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Citations in the corpus

• The Form of Children's Early Signs: Iconic or Motoric Determinants? (2008, background): “Namy, Campbell, and Tomasello (2004) report experimental evidence that 26-month olds, but not 18-month olds, are sensitive to the iconicity of novel nonlinguistic gestures.”
• Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages (2010, background): “In contrast to the Namy et al. (2004) study, which used only action-like gestures, Tolar et al. (2008) included iconic signs reflecting the action associated with a referent as well as signs that were iconic of perceptual (i.e., static) features of referents, thereby providing some initial…”
• Infants' Developing Sensitivity to Object Function: Attention to Features and Feature Correlations (2011, background): “Similar developmental trajectories have been observed for infants' sensitivity to arbitrary gestures (Namy, Campbell, & Tomasello, 2004 ), relations involving self-propulsion (Rakison, 2006 ), and phonemic distinctions (Stager & Werker, 1997 ).”