Simon Child

List of John Benjamins publications in which Simon Child is involved.

Article

Child, Simon, Anna L. Theakston and Simone Pika 2014 How do modelled gestures influence preschool children’s spontaneous gesture production? Social versus semantic influence Gesture 14:1, pp. 1–25 | Article

Around the age of nine months, children start to communicate by using first words and gestures, during interactions with caregivers. The question remains as to how older preschool children utilise the gestures they observe into their own gestural representations of previously unseen objects. Two… read more