Gestures in language development

Special Issue of Gesture volume 8:2 (2008)

Editors

Marianne Gullberg | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Kees de Bot | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

[Gesture, 8:2] 2008. 145 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.8.2

Table of Contents

Preface	147–148
Articles
Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development Marianne Gullberg, Kees de Bot and Virginia Volterra	149–179
Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures Ulf Liszkowski	180–196
The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task Silvia Stefanini, Martina Recchia and Maria Cristina Caselli	197–218
The effect of gestures on second language memorisation by young children Marion Tellier	219–235
Gesture and information structure in first and second language Keiko Yoshioka	236–255
Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker Amanda Brown	256–276
Books for review
Recent, new and forthcoming books on gesture and related topics	277–279
Notes
Further information and weblinks	281
ISGS: International Society for Gesture Studies	282
Forthcoming events	283–284

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Signed languages

Gesture Studies

Psychology

Cognitive psychology