From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

by Volterra, Virginia; Erting, Carol J.

• ISBN13: 9781563680786
• ISBN10: 1563680785
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-14
• Publisher: Gallaudet Univ Pr

Table of Contents

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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