From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • V. Volterra, C. J. Erting

      Pages 1-4

3. Hearing Children with Spoken Language Input

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-8

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   2. Social and Cognitive Determinants of Mutual Gaze Between Mother and Infant

      • L. D’odorico, M. C. Levorato

      Pages 9-17

   3. Gestural Development, Dual-Directional Signaling, and the Transition to Words

      • E. F. Masur

      Pages 18-30

   4. Gestures, Words, and Early Object Sharing

      • L. B. Adamson, R. Bakeman, C. B. Smith

      Pages 31-41

   5. Some Observations on the Origins of the Pointing Gesture

      • A. Lock, A. Young, V. Service, P. Chandler

      Pages 42-55

   6. Communicative Gestures and First Words

      • M. C. Caselli

      Pages 56-67

   7. Sign Language Among Hearing Infants: The Spontaneous Development of Symbolic Gestures

      • L. P. Acredolo, S. W. Goodwyn

      Pages 68-78

   8. Vocal and Gestural Symbols: Similarities and Differences from 13 to 28 Months

      • C. Shore, E. Bates, I. Bretherton, M. Beeghly, B. O’Connell

      Pages 79-91

4. Deaf Children with Sign Language Input

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-95

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   2. The Interactional Context of Deaf Mother-Infant Communication

      • C. J. Erting, C. Prezioso, M. O’Grady Hynes

      Pages 97-106

   3. Acquisition of the Handshape in American Sign Language: A Preliminary Analysis

      • P. Boyes Braem

      Pages 107-127

   4. Faces: The Relationship Between Language and Affect

      • J. Snitzer Reilly, M. L. McIntire, U. Bellugi

      Pages 128-141

   5. The Early Development of Deixis in American Sign Language: What Is the Point?

      • E. Pizzuto

      Pages 142-152

   6. The Transition from Gesture to Symbol in American Sign Language

      • L. A. Petitto

      Pages 153-161

5. Deaf Children Without Sign Language Input

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-164

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   2. The Development of Morphology Without a Conventional Language Model

      • S. Goldin-Meadow, C. Mylander

      Pages 165-177

   3. Gesture in Hearing Mother-Deaf Child Interaction

      • M. C. Da Cunha Pereira, C. De Lemos

      Pages 178-186

   4. The Interaction of Gesture and Speech in the Language Development of Two Profoundly Deaf Children

      • H. Mohay

      Pages 187-204

Virginia Volterra and Carol Erting have made an important contribu­ tion to knowledge with this selection of studies on language acquisi­ tion. Collections of studies clustered more or less closely around a topic are plentiful, but this one is 1 nique. Volterra and Erting had a clear plan in mind when making their selection. Taken together, the studies make the case that language is inseparable from human inter­ action and communication and, especially in infancy, as much a matter of gestural as of vocal behavior. The editors have arranged the papers in five coherent sections and written an introduction to each section in addition to the expected general introduction and conclu­ sion. No introductory course in child and language development will be complete without this book. Presenting successively studies of hearing children acquiring speech languages, of deaf children acquiring sign languages, of hear­ ing children of deaf parents, of deaf children of hearing parents, and of hearing children compared with deaf children, Volterra and Erting give one a wider than usual view oflanguage acquisition. It is a view that would have been impossible not many years ago - when the primary languages of deaf adults had received neither recognition nor respect.

• Entwicklungspsychologie
• Spracherwerb
• Spracherwerb bei tauben Kindern
• Sprachpsychologie
• cognition
• development
• developmental psychology
• interaction
• kommunikative Gestik
• language
• language acquisition
• language development
• psychology
• psychology of language

• Istituto di Psicologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricecche (CNR), Roma, Italy

  Virginia Volterra

• Department of Linguistics and Director Culture and Communication Studies Program Gallaudet Research Institute College Hall 402, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA

  Carol J. Erting

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