Do pointing gestures by infants provoke comments from adults?

Kishimoto, Takeshi; Shizawa, Yasuhiro; Yasuda, Jun; Hinobayashi, Toshihiko; Minami, Tōru

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.04.001

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“…[52]). Because gesture seems to reflect a child's readiness for acquiring a particular linguistic structure, it has the potential to alert listeners (parents, teachers and clinicians) to the fact that a child is ready to learn that word or sentence.…”

Section: (I) Gesture Provides Opportunities To Practice Conveying Meamentioning

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Widening the lens: what the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

Goldin‐Meadow

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The goal of this paper is to widen the lens on language to include the manual modality. We look first at hearing children who are acquiring language from a spoken language model and find that even before they use speech to communicate, they use gesture. Moreover, those gestures precede, and predict, the acquisition of structures in speech. We look next at deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from using the oral modality, and whose hearing parents have not presented them with a language model in the manual modality. These children fall back on the manual modality to communicate and use gestures, which take on many of the forms and functions of natural language. These homemade gesture systems constitute the first step in the emergence of manual sign systems that are shared within deaf communities and are full-fledged languages. We end by widening the lens on sign language to include gesture and find that signers not only gesture, but they also use gesture in learning contexts just as speakers do. These findings suggest that what is key in gesture's ability to predict learning is its ability to add a second representational format to communication, rather than a second modality. Gesture can thus be language, assuming linguistic forms and functions, when other vehicles are not available; but when speech or sign is possible, gesture works along with language, providing an additional representational format that can promote learning.

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Section: (I) Gesture Provides Opportunities To Practice Conveying Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

Widening the lens: what the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

Goldin‐Meadow

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…single vowels; Gros-Louis et al, 2006). In addition, caregivers are more likely to respond by labeling the indicated object when infants produce pointing gestures than when they produce less developmentally advanced requesting gestures (Kishimoto et al, 2007; Masur, 1982). These studies suggest that parents are sensitive to their infants’ growing communicative competence and are more likely to respond with rich verbal input to infant behaviors that are more developmentally advanced.…”

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Maternal verbal responses to communication of infants at low and heightened risk of autism

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Butler

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This study investigates mothers’ responses to infant communication among infants at heightened genetic risk (high risk) of autism spectrum disorder compared to infants with no such risk (low risk). A total of 26 infants, 12 of whom had an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder, were observed during naturalistic in-home interaction and semistructured play with their mothers at 13 and 18 months of age. Results indicate that overall, mothers of low-risk and high-risk infants were highly and similarly responsive to their infants’ communicative behaviors. However, examination of infant vocal and gestural communication development together with maternal verbal responses and translations (i.e. verbally labeling a gesture referent) suggests that delays in early communication development observed among high-risk infants may alter the input that these infants receive; this in turn may have cascading effects on the subsequent development of communication and language.

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“…Such infant-initiated gestures are possibly only necessary when infants request parenting from adults other than their mothers. Human infants who are unable to express their requests using speech typically use pointing gestures to not only mothers but also other adults (e.g., nursery staff26). Taken together, the gestural expressions of requests by infants would be important for both species in procuring alloparental care from adults.…”

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Alloparenting for chimpanzee twins

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Tatara

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In April 2009, a female chimpanzee named Sango, living in a captive group at the Noichi Zoo, Japan, gave birth to dizygotic male-female twin chimpanzees (male: Daiya, female: Sakura). The extent to which adult group members cared for the twins was investigated using a focal animal sampling method targeting six adults (one male) when the twin chimpanzees were two years old. Data were collected for an average of 6.78 h (SD = 0.79) per focal participant. An unaffiliated female adult of Sango was engaged in parenting Sakura as much as Sango. Given that Sakura was in lesser proximity to Sango than Daiya, Sakura's departures from her mother and her ability to gesture requests might have enabled non-kin adults to provide her care.

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Do pointing gestures by infants provoke comments from adults?

Cited by 61 publications

References 18 publications

Widening the lens: what the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

Widening the lens: what the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

Maternal verbal responses to communication of infants at low and heightened risk of autism

Alloparenting for chimpanzee twins

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