基本説明
This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different disciplines that examine language development in children and adults from varying perspectives.
Full Description
Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different disciplines that examine language development in children and adults from varying perspectives. It provides a review of common theoretical and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants, the relationship between gestures and lexical development in typically and atypically developing children and in second language learners, what gestures reveal about discourse, and how all languages that adult second language speakers know can influence each other. The papers exemplify a vibrant new field of study with relevance for multiple disciplines.
Contents
1. About the authors; 2. Preface (by Gullberg, Marianne); 3. Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development (by Gullberg, Marianne); 4. Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures (by Liszkowski, Ulf); 5. The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task (by Stefanini, Silvia); 6. The effect of gestures on second language memorisation by young children (by Tellier, Marion); 7. Gesture and information structure in first and second language (by Yoshioka, Keiko); 8. Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker (by Brown, Amanda); 9. Author index; 10. Subject index
![Selections. [Edited by J.R. Tutin]](../images/goods/ar/work/imgdatag/11495/114954662X.JPG)
