Early Action and Gesture "Vocabulary" and Its Relation With Word Comprehension and Production

Data from 492 Italian infants (8-18months) were collected with the parental questionnaire MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories to describe early actions and gestures (A-G) "vocabulary" and its relation with spoken vocabulary in both comprehension and production. A-G were more strongly correlated with word comprehension than word production. A clear developmental pattern for the different types of A-G was found. These findings are similar to those of different Western languages, indicating a common biological and cultural basis. The analysis of individual A-G and their relations with early words with a related meaning showed interesting similarities between the production of A-G with and without object manipulation and the comprehension and production of corresponding words. Results indicate that the transition from A-G to spoken language is mediated by word comprehension. © 2012 The Authors. Child Development © 2012 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

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Caselli, Maria Cristina
Rinaldi, Pasquale
Stefanini, Silvia
Volterra, Virginia
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Published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development [etc.], [Chicago, etc.], Stati Uniti d'America
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Child development 83 (2012): 526–542. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01727.x
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2012
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http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/338254
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01727.x
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