Gesture paves the way for language development
Gesture paves the way for language development
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DOI：
10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01542.x
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Goldin-Meadow, S
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作者：
Iverson, JM;Goldin-Meadow, S
在发展过程中，儿童在使用语言之前经常使用手势进行交流。问题是这些手势是否只是先于语言的发展，或根本tied到it.We检查了10名儿童的过渡，从单个单词到两个单词的组合，发现手势有密切的关系，儿童的词汇和句法的发展。首先，每个孩子最初在手势中产生的大量词汇后来转移到了孩子的口头词汇中。第二，最先产生手势加单词组合的儿童也最先产生两个单词组合（“bird nap”）。因此，手势的变化不仅早于语言的变化，而且预测了语言的变化，这表明早期手势可能为语言的未来发展铺平了道路。
In development, children often use gesture to communicate before they use words. The question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are fundamentally tied to it. We examined 10 children making the transition from single words to two-word combinations and found that gesture had a tight relation to the children's lexical and syntactic development. First, a great many of the lexical items that each child produced initially in gesture later moved to that child's verbal lexicon. Second, children who were first to produce gesture-plus-word combinations conveying two elements in a proposition (point at bird and say "nap") were also first to produce two-word combinations ("bird nap"). Changes in gesture thus not only predate but also predict changes in language, suggesting that early gesture may be paving the way for future developments in language.