infants' and toddlers' spontaneous gestures

[Ann Dowker]

I don't know of any references on gestures during sleep; but here are
a few on gesture development that may be useful:


Attwood, A., Frith, U. and Hermelin, B. (1988). The understanding
and use of interpersonal gestures by autistic and Downs syndrome
children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 18,
241-257

Boyatzis, C.J. and Watson, M.W. (1993). Preschool children's
symbolic representations of objects through gestures. Child
Development, 64, 729-735

Capirci,O., Iverson, J.M., Pizzuto, E. and Volterra, V. (1996).
Gestures and words during the transition to two-word speech. Journal
of Child Language, 23, 645-673

Marschark, M. (1994). Gesture and sign. Applied Psycholinguistics,
15, 209-236 (and a number of other papers looking at relationships
between sign language and gestures)

O'Reilly, A.W., Painter, K.M. and Bornstein, M.H. (1997). Relations
between language and symbolic gesture development in early childhood.
Cognitive Development, 12, 185-197

Thal, D.J. and Tobias, S. (1992). Communicative gestures in children
with delayed onset of oral expressive vocabulary. Journal of Speech
and Hearing Research, 35, 1281-1289

Thal, D. and Tobias, S. (1994). Relationships between language and
gestures in normally developing and late-talking toddlers. Journal
of Speech and Hearing Research, 37, 155-170

Tomasello, M. and Camaioni, L. (1997). A comparison of the gestural
communication of apes and human infants. Human Development, 40, 7-24


Hope these help,

Ann