Gestural development, dual-directional signaling, and the transition to words

摘要: Although language researchers have often noted the frequency with which gestures accompany children’s first words (e.g., Dore, 1974), only recently they begun to explore acquisition of these and inquire into role may play in transition early verbal communication. Bruner (1975a) Bates her colleagues (Bates, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1975; Bates, Benigni, Bretherton, 1977; 1979) emphasized functional continuity between prelinguistic initial linguistic signaling, suggesting that young communicative intentions are expressed gesturally before can be encoded conventional symbols. Thus, pointing gesture has received particular attention since its object-distinguishing function a crucial precursor naming (Bates et al., 1979; Bruner, 1975a; Lempers, Flavell, Leung Rheingold, 1981; Murphy, 1978; Ninio Werner Kaplan, 1963).