Gesture and multimodal development / edited by Jean-Marc Colletta, Michèle Guidetti.

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a...

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Other Authors: Colletta, Jean-Marc, Guidetti, Michèle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; 39.
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Summary:We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010), brings together studies from language acquisition and developmental psychology. It provides a review of common theoretical, methodological and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants with a special an.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027273925
9027273928
1280676876
9781280676871
9786613653802
6613653802
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.