infants' and toddlers' spontaneous gestures

[Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

excellent, thank you so much.
Annette

At 12:04 +0100 30/3/05, Glynis Laws wrote:
>Dear Annette,
>
>Chapter 11 in David McNeill’s 1992 book ‘Hand and Mind’ gives a list of
>gestures produced by children aged from 12 months (not while sleeping, I’m
>afraid). These were reproduced from a paper by Acredolo & Goodwyn that was
>described as in press at the time. A & G also have a paper 1988, Symbolic
>gesturing in normal infants. Child Development, 59, 450-466.
>Also: Namy, L. & Waxman, S. (2002). Patterns of spontaneous production of
>novel words and gestures within an experimental setting in children ages 1;6
>and 2;2.
>And, a recent review: Capone, N.C. & McGregor, K.K. (2004). Gesture
>development: a review for clinical and research practices. J. of Speech,
>Language and Hearing Research, 47, 173-186.
>
>Best wishes.
>
>Glynis.
>
>
>
>In message <p0611045bbe702b956ee7@[194.82.244.239]> Professor Annette
>Karmiloff-Smith <a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>  Have there been studies (apart from Susan Goldin-Meadow's fascinating
>>  studies) of the natural gesturing of infants and toddlers?  And any
>>  of their gesturing during sleep?
>>  All pointers most gratefully received.
>>  best wishes for Easter to all,
>>  Annette
>>
>>
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>Dr. Glynis Laws
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>University of Oxford.
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