The role of gesture-speech, crossmodal combinations in early language development: new longitudinal evidence (Abstract/Poster in convegno)

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  • The role of gesture-speech, crossmodal combinations in early language development: new longitudinal evidence (Abstract/Poster in convegno) (literal)
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  • 2007-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Capobianco, M., Antinoro Pizzuto, E., Devescovi, A. (2007)
    The role of gesture-speech, crossmodal combinations in early language development: new longitudinal evidence
    in International Gesture Society Conference, Chicago, ILL, USA
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  • Abs - Several studies on children’s spontaneous early language production highlight the important role that gesture-speech, crossmodal combinations play during the crucial transition from one- to two-word speech. However, the results of these studies are not always comparable or generalizable due not only to theoretical-methodological differences, but also to the size of the longitudinal data available, often insufficent for assessing the statistical significance of the developmental trends observed. This study provides new longitudinal evidence on ten, typically developing Italian children observed monthly from 12 to 23-25 months of age. We focus on two types of crossmodal utterances identified in previous research on the grounds of the different information they convey: “complementary” and “supplementary” utterances.We assess the extent to which the use of these crossmodal combinations examined at different age points (12, 15, 18 months) can predict different measures of language development taken at two years of age. Results show that both complementary and supplementary combinations predict language development, but each combination type contributes in a distinct manner to the developmental process: supplementary gesture-speech combinations predict the onset of two-word utterances, while the use of complementary combinations at 12 and especially at 18 months appears to be a significant predictor of both verbal complexity and word repertoire evaluated at two years of age. (literal)
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  • 1) Università di Roma \"La Sapienza\", 2) ISTC-CNR, 3) Università di Roma \"La Sapienza\" (literal)
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  • The role of gesture-speech, crossmodal combinations in early language development: new longitudinal evidence (literal)
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