How Gestures Pave the Way for Lexical Development: Advanced Study

Farahmandi, Amir Yousef (2020) How Gestures Pave the Way for Lexical Development: Advanced Study. In: Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 2. B P International, pp. 23-32. ISBN 978-93-90149-10-0

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Abstract

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.

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Date Deposited: 27 Nov 2023 04:39
Last Modified: 27 Nov 2023 04:39
URI: http://stm.e4journal.com/id/eprint/2200

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