Adult Responses to Young Children's Communicative Gestures: Joint Achievement                of Speech Acts

Marcos, Haydée; Ryckebusch, Céline; Rabain-Jamin, Jacqueline

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“…In addition, in a more exploratory vein, we also looked at whether caregivers would respond with different types of speech acts depending on the characteristics of infants' points. For example, caregivers may interpret whole-hand points rather as invitations to act on something and index-finger points to elaborate or comment on something (see Marcos, 1991;Marcos, Ryckebusch, & Rabain-Jamin, 2003;Masur, 1982;Olson & Masur, 2011).…”

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Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness

Ger

Altınok²,

Liszkowski³

et al. 2018

Infancy

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Infants’ pointing frequency is a predictor of their later language abilities. Yet, predictors of pointing frequency in the first year of life are not well understood. Study 1 explored what factors in infants and caregivers at 10 months would predict the pointing frequency of infants at 12 months (N = 35). Infant‐driven predictors were infants’ fine‐motor skills and point‐following abilities. Caregiver‐mediated predictors were caregivers’ pointing frequency and responsiveness toward infants’ pointing. Relevant caregiver responsiveness at 10 months predicted infants’ pointing frequency at 12 months, controlling for the other factors and infants’ prior pointing frequency. Study 2 explored whether child‐level factors influence caregivers’ responsiveness (N = 49). We examined the hand shape of infants’ pointing (whole‐hand versus index‐finger) and the presence of point‐accompanying vocalizations. Infants’ vocalization‐accompanied points were more likely to elicit relevant responses from caregivers, while hand shapes played a less pronounced role. Together, the findings reveal an early emerging mutual relationship between infant pointing and caregiver behavior such that certain characteristics of infant pointing predict caregivers’ responsiveness, and relevant responsiveness toward infants’ pointing predicts the increase in infants’ pointing frequencies.

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Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness

Ger

Altınok²,

Liszkowski³

et al. 2018

Infancy

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“…In contrast to iconic gestures that evoke a referent without its presence, the function of pointing gestures is to draw attention to present referents. Basically, the semantic process requires the observer to “relate the gesture to the situation” ( Marcos et al, 2003 , p. 217). However, 12-month-olds also use pointing to refer to objects that are not visible but had been present in the past ( Bohn et al, 2015 ).…”

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An Interactive View on the Development of Deictic Pointing in Infancy

2017

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In this review, we will focus on the development of deictic pointing gestures. We propose that they are based on infants’ sensitivities to human motion. Since both conventionalized gestures and bodily movements can be interpreted as communicative, of special interest to us is how pointing gestures are employed within early social interactions. We push forward the idea of a conventionalization process taking place when the interaction partners guide infants’ participation toward joint goals. On their way to deploy pointing gestures and thus to successfully influence the partner for a specific purpose, infants need also to disengage from their own object perception or manipulation. In addition, infants accompany their gestures increasingly with verbal utterances—this form of communication is multimodal and offers the possibility to combine modalities for the purpose of expressing more complex utterances. The multimodal behavior will be picked up by caregivers and extended into linguistically more complex forms. Because of this emerging relationship to language and its social use, gestural behavior in early infancy is a powerful predictor for later language development.

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“…More specifically, we know that mothers respond to infants' gestures with labeling utterances that should facilitate language acquisition Marcos, 1991;Marcos, Ryckebusch, & Rabain-Jamin, 2003;Masur, 1982;Olson & Masur, 2011). For example, Olson and Masur (2011) found that mothers responded most often to infants' pointing at 13 months with labels of the referenced objects or with internal state words labeling perception (e.g., What do you see?).…”

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Mothers respond differently to infants’ gestural versus nongestural communicative bids

Olson

Masur

2013

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Thirty infants at 1;1 and their mothers were videotaped while playing for 18 minutes. Experimental stimuli were presented in three communicative intent contexts -protodeclarative, proto-imperative, and ambiguous -to elicit infant communicative bids that did and did not contain gestures. Mothers' responses were analyzed, and their verbal responses were further coded as object labels, action labels, internal state labels, and nonlabeling utterances. Results demonstrated differential responses to infants' gestural and nongestural bids. Mothers responded more often and were more likely to provide a verbal response in all contexts when infants' communicative bids included gestures. They were also more likely to provide an object label and less likely to provide nonlabeling utterances to gestural than nongestural bids in the proto-declarative and ambiguous contexts. The privileged responses following infants' gestures may serve as a mechanism for vocabulary acquisition.

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Adult Responses to Young Children's Communicative Gestures: Joint Achievement of Speech Acts

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness

Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness

An Interactive View on the Development of Deictic Pointing in Infancy

Mothers respond differently to infants’ gestural versus nongestural communicative bids

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