Developing language in a developing body, revisited: The cascading effects of motor development on the acquisition of language.
Developing language in a developing body, revisited: The cascading effects of motor development on the acquisition of language.
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重新审视发育中的身体中的语言发展:运动发育对语言习得的连锁效应。
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10.1002/wcs.1626
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2022
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Iverson,JanaM
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Iverson,JanaM
In the first years of life, infants rapidly acquire a series of new motor skills. They learn to sit independently, to walk with skill, and to engage in a wide variety of interactions with objects. Over these same years, infants also begin to develop language. These are not isolated events. In a complex developing system, even small changes in one domain can have far‐reaching effects on development in other domains. This is the fundamental idea behind the rich framework known as thedevelopmental cascadesperspective. Here we employ this framework to show how early motor advances can exert downstream effects on the development of language. Focusing first on the emergence of independent sitting, then on the development of walking, and finally on changes in the ways in which infants act on and combine actions on objects, we describe how the nature and quality of infant actions change dramatically over the first few years and how this brings with it new possibilities for engaging the environment, more sophisticated ways of interacting with people, and significant alterations in communications directed by caregivers to the infant and coordinated with infant action in time and in meaning. The developmental cascades framework provides an approach for understanding how advances in motor skills influence communicative and language development, and more generally, for conceptualizing the constant, dynamic, and complex interplay between developing infants and their environments as it unfolds over time.This article is categorized under:Linguistics > Language AcquisitionPsychology > Motor Skill and PerformancePsychology > Development and Aging