From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children de Virginia Volterra

From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

Virginia Volterra

Carol J. Erting

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 1998

In 21 essays on communicative gesturing in the first two years of life, this vital collection demonstrates the importance of gesture in a child’s transition to a linguistic system. Introductions preceding each section emphasize the parallels between the findings in these studies and the general body of scholarship devoted to the process of spoken language acquisition.

Renowned scholars contributing to this volume include Ursula Bellugi, Judy Snitzer Reilly, Susan Goldwin-Meadow, Andrew Lock, M. Chiara Levorato, and many others.

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I Hearing Children with Spoken Language Input.- 1 Social and Cognitive Determinants of Mutual Gaze Between Mother and Infant.- 2 Gestural Development, Dual-Directional Signaling, and the Transition to Words.- 3 Gestures, Words, and Early Object Sharing.- 4 Some Observations on the Origins of the Pointing Gesture.- 5 Communicative Gestures and First Words.- 6 Sign Language Among Hearing Infants: The Spontaneous Development of Symbolic Gestures.- 7 Vocal and Gestural Symbols: Similarities and Differences from 13 to 28 Months.- II Deaf Children with Sign Language Input.- 8 The Interactional Context of Deaf Mother-Infant Communication.- 9 Acquisition of the Handshape in American Sign Language: A Preliminary Analysis.- 10 Faces: The Relationship Between Language and Affect.- 11 The Early Development of Deixis in American Sign Language: What Is the Point?.- 12 The Transition from Gesture to Symbol in American Sign Language.- III Deaf Children Without Sign Language Input.- 13 The Development of Morphology Without a Conventional Language Model.- 14 Gesture in Hearing Mother-Deaf Child Interaction.- 15 The Interaction of Gesture and Speech in the Language Development of Two Profoundly Deaf Children.- 16 How Does Gestural Communication Become Language?.- IV Hearing Children with Spoken and Sign Language Input.- 17 Early Sign Language Acquisition: Implications for Theories of Language Acquisition.- 18 Emergence of Mode-Finding and Mode-Switching in a Hearing Child of Deaf Parents.- V Hearing Children and Deaf Children Compared.- 19 Gesture in Early Child Language.- 20 From Communication to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children.- 21 Enhancement of Spatial Cognition in Deaf Children.- Conclusion.- References.