Communication in the second and third year of life : relationships between nonverbal social skills and language
Date
08/2016Metadata
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We aimed to investigate developmental continuities between a range of early social and communicative abilities (including gestural communication) and language acquisition in children aged between 11 and 41 months. Initiation of joint attention and imitation were strongly correlated to language comprehension and production. Moreover, the analysis of different communicative gestures revealed significant relationships between language development and the production of symbolic gestures, declarative pointing (declarative informative pointing in particular), and head nodding. Other gestures such as imperative pointing, showing, and head shaking were not found to correlate with language level. Our results also suggest that distinct processes are involved in the development of language comprehension and production, and highlight the importance of considering various characteristics of children’s early communicative skills.
Citation
Cochet , H & Byrne , R W 2016 , ' Communication in the second and third year of life : relationships between nonverbal social skills and language ' , Infant Behavior and Development , vol. 44 , pp. 189-198 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.07.003
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Infant Behavior and Development
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0163-6383Type
Journal article
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© 2016, Elsevier Inc. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at www.sciencedirect.com / https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.07.003
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This work was supported by a postdoctoral research grant from the Fyssen foundation.Collections
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