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14 - Gesture and First Language Development: The Multimodal Child

from Part III - Gestures and Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2024

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Aliyah Morgenstern
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Alan Cienki
Alan Cienki
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Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Summary

This chapter presents the role and use of gesture in first language development and its integration in the child’s multimodal communicative system. It includes an overview of theories and methods that have triggered and facilitated the study of gestures in language development. The main issues are illustrated with detailed analyses of examples extracted from longitudinal data in English and French. The human communication system develops in a space of shared meanings in which adults socialize children into language in situated activities; consequently, this overview highlights the crucial role of caregivers in child–adult interactions. We first focus on the role of gestures in adults’ communicative input and then follow children’s development into the use of the adults’ multimodal communicative system. At the end of the developmental process, speech becomes clearly predominant but is both complemented and supplemented by other semiotic resources according to variables such as linguistic context, situation, interlocutor, activity, or discourse genre. Children learn to master the dynamic multimodal communicative system used around them and with them in their daily interactions.

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child–adult interactionchild languagechild-directed communicationfirst language developmentgesturemultimodalitymultimodal inputpointing
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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies , pp. 368 - 397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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