In:Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 27] 2020
► pp. 173–187
The emergence of gesture during prelinguistic interaction
Published online: 17 September 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.08cam
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.08cam
Abstract
The emergence of intentional prelinguistic communication demonstrates in the most basic terms, the essence of language and the dynamic nature of communicative development. The chapter provides an overview of prelinguistic development from a dynamic perspective, beginning with a discussion of joint attention skills and patterns of triadic interaction, followed by a description of prelinguistic gesture development. The chapter presents a dynamic, interactive account of development in which infant gestures become social over time through interaction with more experienced co-participants. The chapter concludes by considering prelinguistic gestures cross-culturally and the challenges associated with studying this rich and interactive aspect of development.
Article outline
- Preface
- Introduction
- The development of triadic attention and joint action
- The development of prelinguistic communicative gestures
- Theoretical perspectives on the emergence of declarative gestures
- Prelinguistic gesture development across cultures
- Summing up
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