From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

Abstract

I Hearing Children with Spoken Language Input.- 1 Social and Cognitive Determinants of Mutual Gaze Between Mother and Infant.- 2 Gestural Development, Dual-Directional Signaling, and the Transition to Words.- 3 Gestures, Words, and Early Object Sharing.- 4 Some Observations on the Origins of the Pointing Gesture.- 5 Communicative Gestures and First Words.- 6 Sign Language Among Hearing Infants: The Spontaneous Development of Symbolic Gestures.- 7 Vocal and Gestural Symbols: Similarities and Differences from 13 to 28 Months.- II Deaf Children with Sign Language Input.- 8 The Interactional Context of Deaf Mother-Infant Communication.- 9 Acquisition of the Handshape in American Sign Language: A Preliminary Analysis.- 10 Faces: The Relationship Between Language and Affect.- 11 The Early Development of Deixis in American Sign Language: What Is the Point?.- 12 The Transition from Gesture to Symbol in American Sign Language.- III Deaf Children Without Sign Language Input.- 13 The Development of Morphology Without a Conventional Language Model.- 14 Gesture in Hearing Mother-Deaf Child Interaction.- 15 The Interaction of Gesture and Speech in the Language Development of Two Profoundly Deaf Children.- 16 How Does Gestural Communication Become Language?.- IV Hearing Children with Spoken and Sign Language Input.- 17 Early Sign Language Acquisition: Implications for Theories of Language Acquisition.- 18 Emergence of Mode-Finding and Mode-Switching in a Hearing Child of Deaf Parents.- V Hearing Children and Deaf Children Compared.- 19 Gesture in Early Child Language.- 20 From Communication to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children.- 21 Enhancement of Spatial Cognition in Deaf Children.- Conclusion.- References.