Overview

Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different disciplines that examine language development in children and adults from varying perspectives. It provides a review of common theoretical and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants, the relationship between gestures and lexical development in typically and atypically developing children and in second language learners, what gestures reveal about discourse, and how all languages that adult second language speakers know can influence each other. The papers exemplify a vibrant new field of study with relevance for multiple disciplines.

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Author:   Marianne Gullberg (Lund University) ,  Kees de Bot (University of Groningen)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   28
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9789027222589

ISBN 10:   9027222584
Pages:   139
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. About the authors; 2. Preface (by Gullberg, Marianne); 3. Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development (by Gullberg, Marianne); 4. Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures (by Liszkowski, Ulf); 5. The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task (by Stefanini, Silvia); 6. The effect of gestures on second language memorisation by young children (by Tellier, Marion); 7. Gesture and information structure in first and second language (by Yoshioka, Keiko); 8. Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker (by Brown, Amanda); 9. Author index; 10. Subject index

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