Introduction | p. 1 |
Hearing Children with Spoken Language Input | p. 5 |
Social and Cognitive Determinants of Mutual Gaze Between Mother and Infant | p. 9 |
Gestural Development, Dual-Directional Signaling, and the Transition to Words | p. 18 |
Gestures, Words, and Early Object Sharing | p. 31 |
Some Observations on the Origins of the Pointing Gesture | p. 42 |
Communicative Gestures and First Words | p. 56 |
Sign Language Among Hearing Infants: The Spontaneous Development of Symbolic Gestures | p. 68 |
Vocal and Gestural Symbols: Similarities and Differences from 13 to 28 Months | p. 79 |
Deaf Children with Sign Language Input | p. 93 |
The Interactional Context of Deaf Mother - Infant Communication | p. 97 |
Acquisition of the Handshape in American Sign Language: A Preliminary Analysis | p. 107 |
Faces: The Relationship Between Language and Affect | p. 128 |
The Early Development of Deixis in American Sign Language: What Is the Point? | p. 142 |
The Transition from Gesture to Symbol in American Sign Language | p. 153 |
Deaf Children Without Sign Language Input | p. 163 |
The Development of Morphology Without a Conventional Language Model | p. 165 |
Gesture in Hearing Mother-Deaf Child Interaction | p. 178 |
The Interaction of Gesture and Speech in the Language Development of Two Profoundly Deaf Children | p. 187 |
How Does Gestural Communication Become Language? | p. 205 |
Hearing Children with Spoken and Sign Language Input | p. 217 |
Early Sign Language Acquisition: Implications for Theories of Language Acquisition | p. 219 |
Emergence of Mode-Finding and Mode-Switching in a Hearing Child of Deaf Parents | p. 233 |
Hearing Children and Deaf Children Compared | p. 247 |
Gesture in Early Child Language | p. 249 |
From Communication to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children | p. 263 |
Enhancement of Spatial Cognition in Deaf Children | p. 278 |
Conclusion | p. 299 |
References | p. 304 |
Subject Index | p. 323 |
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