Maria Cristina Caselli
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Cristina Caselli is involved.
2017 Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article
What is linguistic communication and what is it not? Even if we often convey meanings through visible bodily actions, these are rarely considered part of human language. However, co-verbal gestures have compositional structure and semantic significance, while highly iconic structures are… read more
2011 Naming with gestures
in children with typical development and with Down syndrome Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, Vilain, Anne, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair (eds.), pp. 155–172 | Article
2010 Early development of gestures, object-related-actions, word comprehension and word production, and their relationships in Italian infants: A longitudinal study Gesture 10:1, pp. 52–85 | Article
Our study aimed to examine longitudinally early development of gestures, object-actions (short for object-related-actions), word comprehension, and word production and their reciprocal relationships in typically developing infants. Twenty-two monolingual Italian infants were followed monthly from… read more
2010 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task Gestures in Language Development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 53–74 | Article
2008 Deaf and hearing children: Reading together in preschool Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina and Esperanza Morales-López (eds.), pp. 137–164 | Article
The present chapter describes an educational experience carried out within the project “Bilingual education towards deaf and hearing children’s integration”. The conceptual framework of the project refers to a bilingual approach which consists in exposing deaf and hearing kindergarten children to… read more
2008 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task Gestures in language development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 197–218 | Article
We examined the relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome (DS) in a naming task. Fifteen children with DS (3;8–8;3 years) were compared to 15 typically developing (TD) children matched for developmental age (DATD) (2;6–4;3 years… read more
2007 From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 141–161 | Article
The present study reports empirical longitudinal data on the early stages of language development. The main hypothesis is that the output systems of speech and gesture may draw on underlying brain mechanisms common to both language and motor functions. We analyze the spontaneous interaction with… read more
2005 From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 155–177 | Article
The present study reports empirical longitudinal data on the early stages of language development. The main hypothesis is that the output systems of speech and gesture may draw on underlying brain mechanisms common to both language and motor functions. We analyze the spontaneous interaction with… read more
2004 Language in preschool Italian children withWilliams and Down syndromes Williams Syndrome across Languages, Bartke, Susanne and Julia Siegmüller (eds.), pp. 163–186 | Article