Gesture Paves the Way for Language Development

By Jana M. Iverson, S. Goldin‐Meadow. Psychology Science, 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction

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A new look at infant pointing. (2007, background): “Moreover, when infants first begin talking, many of their earliest utterances are combinations of gestures (mostly pointing) with words, dividing up in various ways the topic and focus functions (Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005; Ozcaliskan & Goldin- Meadow, 2005; Tomasello, 1988).”
Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review (2009, background): “Children in the oneword stage coordinate speech and gesture in a systematic way (GoldinMeadow & Butcher, 2003; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005; Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Voltera, 2009).”
Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development (2017, background): “Over their first 12 months, infants develop several foundational communication skills that support positive language development and predict later language trajectories, such as gaze following (Brooks & Meltzoff 2005), pointing (Tomasello et al. 2007), and gesturing (Iverson & Goldin-Meadow 2005).”
How bodies matter: five themes for interaction design (2006, background): “Just as moving about in the world helps infants to learn about the physics of the world and consequences of actions, gesture plays a role in pre-linguistic communication for babies [31] as well as aids cognition and fully linguistic communication for adults.”
Infants’ prelinguistic communicative acts and maternal responses: Relations to linguistic development (2014, background): “…shown that gesture–word combinations precede two-word combinations (Capirci et al., 1996), and, furthermore, the combination of pointing and one word predicts the onset of two-word combinations (Goldin-Meadow, 2007; Iverson, Capirci, Volterra, & Goldin-Meadow, 2008; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005).”
Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing (2011, background): “Previous studies have investigated point + word combinations (Capirci et al., 1996; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005), but little is known about the vocalizations accompanying different morphological forms of pointing.”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, background): “Manual gestures pre-date early development of speech in children, and predict later success even up to the twoword level (Iverson & Goldin-Meadow 2005).”
The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing (2015, background): “In addition to being a species-specific behaviour, index finger pointing has been linked to language development, thereby assuring its status as a gesture par cognitive excellence in the literature (Bates, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1975; Butterworth, 2003; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005).”
What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “Signs that are symbols for adults (e.g., names) are initially indexical for young children (Homer & Nelson, 2005; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005; Piaget, 1929/1951).”