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April 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Infants have impressive representational abilities and it is important to consider the interactional context when researching the development of gesture!
January 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Infants have impressive representational abilities and it is important to consider the interactional context when researching the development of gesture!
Although gestures were sometimes imitated or derived from adult models, most gestures were not. Infants' creativity and innovativeness in producing iconic gestures led us to believe that they may understand the link between the form and meaning of the gestures they produce.
January 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Although gestures were sometimes imitated or derived from adult models, most gestures were not. Infants' creativity and innovativeness in producing iconic gestures led us to believe that they may understand the link between the form and meaning of the gestures they produce.
There was mixed evidence for the symbolic distancing hypothesis (that conceptually less-challenging gestures would be produced earlier). Children used more object-in-hand gestures to depict transitive actions but also more imagined object than body-part-as-object gestures.
January 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There was mixed evidence for the symbolic distancing hypothesis (that conceptually less-challenging gestures would be produced earlier). Children used more object-in-hand gestures to depict transitive actions but also more imagined object than body-part-as-object gestures.
We identified the first 10 iconic gestures produced by 5 English-speaking infants in a naturalistic video corpus and analysed their form and context. The great majority of gestures depicted actions.
January 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We identified the first 10 iconic gestures produced by 5 English-speaking infants in a naturalistic video corpus and analysed their form and context. The great majority of gestures depicted actions.