Claire D. Vallotton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claire D. Vallotton is involved.
2012 Support or competition? Dynamic development of the relationship between manual pointing and symbolic gestures from 6 to 18 months of age Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 27–48 | Article
Dynamic Skills Theory (DST) posits that skills within domains may promote or suppress other skills as they first develop, resulting in spurts of growth in one skill concurrently with regression in another. I test this premise by examining development of two preverbal representational skills: manual… read more
2011 Chapter 9. Giving a nod to social cognition: Developmental constraints on the emergence of conventional gestures and infant signs Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 121–136 | Chapter
Developmental researchers recognize that multiple component skills and social processes underlie children’s communication. Infants’ gestures have catalyzed consideration of non-verbal behaviors as markers of early communicative and social competence. The current study examines infant sign and… read more
2011 Chapter 8. Sentences and conversations before speech? Gestures of preverbal children reveal cognitive and social skills that do not wait for words Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 105–120 | Chapter
The author wishes to acknowledge the children, parents, student caregivers, and staff of the Center for Child and Family Studies at the University of California, Davis for their time and patience with this study. Thanks also to the dedicated and talented research assistants who collected and coded… read more
2010 Support or competition? Dynamic development of the relationship between manual pointing and symbolic gestures from 6 to 18 months of age Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 150–171 | Article
Dynamic Skills Theory (DST) posits that skills within domains may promote or suppress other skills as they first develop, resulting in spurts of growth in one skill concurrently with regression in another. I test this premise by examining development of two preverbal representational skills: manual… read more