Gesture and multimodal development / edited by Jean-Marc Colletta, Michèle Guidetti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gesture and Multimodal Development; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Gesture and multimodal development; References; Pointing gesture in young children; Different communicative intentions; Cognitive abilities and pointing; Different hand shapes for pointing; Origins of pointing gestures; Relations with language development; Handedness and language development; Manual preference for pointing gestures; Manipulative activities vs. pointing gestures; Manipulative activities, pointing gestures and language; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References.

Support or competition?Pointing; Symbolic gestures; Relation of symbolic skills to one another; The current study; Methods; Analytic Strategy; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgements; Note; References; From gesture to sign and from gesture to word; Literature review on the issues at stake; Pointing gestures in ontogeny; The role of pointing gestures in interaction; The role of pointing gestures in language acquisition; Research questions and hypotheses; Methodology; Participants; Differences between modalities; Transcriptions; Coding system and analytical methods; Quantitative results.

Development of pointing gestures in the three girls' dataDevelopment of pointing gestures and words/signs; Discussion; Number of pointing gestures; Pointing towards persons and self; Development of pointing gestures and words/signs; Conclusion; Notes; References; How the hands control attention during early word learning; Summary and research hypotheses; General method; Overview; Participants; Stimuli; Procedure; Data analysis; Experiment 1; Goal and research hypotheses; Participants; Results and discussion; Experiment 2; Goal and research hypotheses; Participants; Results and discussion.

Combined analyses for Experiments 1 and 2Summary and concluding discussion; Summary of results; General discussion; Acknowledgements; Note; References; Infant movement as a window into language processing; Introduction; Methods; Studies; Participants; Speech discrimination study; Study on the perception of melody; Procedure; Movement coding; Analysis; Background and Results; Vocalization and mouth movement: Background; Vocalization and mouth movement: Results and discussion; Gaze shifting and head movement: Background; Gaze shifting and head movement: Results and discussion.

Torso movement: BackgroundTorso movement: Results and discussion; Arm and hand movement, and finger gesture: Background; Arm and hand movement and finger gesture: Results and discussion; General discussion; Implications and future work; Notes; References; Children's lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development; Introduction; Parental multimodal behavior modifications; Parent and child as a system; The parent-child system in atypical populations; Task-dependent modification of communicative behavior; The present study.

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010), brings together studies from language acquisition and developmental psychology. It provides a review of common theoretical, methodological and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants with a special an.

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