This paper investigates the social-cognitive and motivational complexities underlying
prelinguistic infants' gestural communication. With regard to deictic referential gestures, new …

The paper reviews studies on prelinguistic infants' gestures and the evidence for deictic and
for symbolic gestural communication before language. First, recent and new studies …

In this review, we will focus on the development of deictic pointing gestures. We propose that
they are based on infants' sensitivities to human motion. Since both conventionalized …

This study prospectively explored the role of declarative and imperative gestures in the
development of language and symbolic play milestones using a multi-measure micro …

Several cognitive accounts of human communication argue for a language‐independent,
prelinguistic basis of human communication and language. The current study provides …

We review major developmental evidence on the continuity from action to gesture to word
and sign in human children, highlighting the important role of caregivers in the development …

The first gestures that children produce intentionally to communicate with others, make
sense of the world around them, and control their behavior are ostensive gestures of …

For the beginning language learner, communicative input is not based on linguistic codes
alone. This study investigated two extralinguistic factors which are important for infants' …

How do infants communicate before they have acquired a language? This paper supports
the hypothesis that infants possess social–cognitive skills that run deeper than language …

Speech directed towards young children ('motherese') is subject to consistent systematic
modifications. Recent research suggests that gesture directed towards young children is …