Language development at 18 months is related to multimodal communicative strategies at 12 months

Infant Behavior & Development
Alfonso IgualadaPilar Prieto

Abstract

The present study investigated the degree to which an infants' use of simultaneous gesture-speech combinations during controlled social interactions predicts later language development. Nineteen infants participated in a declarative pointing task involving three different social conditions: two experimental conditions (a) available, when the adult was visually attending to the infant but did not attend to the object of reference jointly with the child, and (b) unavailable, when the adult was not visually attending to neither the infant nor the object; and (c) a baseline condition, when the adult jointly engaged with the infant's object of reference. At 12 months of age measures related to infants' speech-only productions, pointing-only gestures, and simultaneous pointing-speech combinations were obtained in each of the three social conditions. Each child's lexical and grammatical output was assessed at 18 months of age through parental report. Results revealed a significant interaction between social condition and type of communicative production. Specifically, only simultaneous pointing-speech combinations increased in frequency during the available condition compared to baseline, while no differences were found for speech-onl...Continue Reading

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Jul 25, 2015·Journal of Child Language·Eva Murillo, Almudena Capilla
Feb 7, 2015·Infant Behavior & Development·Núria Esteve-GibertFerran Pons
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