Maria Cristina Caselli

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Cristina Caselli plays a role.

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, Pasquale Rinaldi and Laura Sparaci 2017 Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/wordThe gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article
What is linguistic communication and what is it not? Even if we often convey meanings through visible bodily actions, these are rarely considered part of human language. However, co-verbal gestures have compositional structure and semantic significance, while highly iconic structures are… read more
Stefanini, Silvia, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra 2011 Naming with gestures 
in children with typical development and with Down syndromePrimate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, Vilain, Anne, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair (eds.), pp. 155–172 | Article
Sansavini, Alessandra, Arianna Bello, AnnaLisa Guarini, Silvia Savini, Silvia Stefanini and Maria Cristina Caselli 2010 Early development of gestures, object-related-actions, word comprehension and word production, and their relationships in Italian infants: A longitudinal studyGesture 10:1, pp. 52–85 | Article
Our study aimed to examine longitudinally early development of gestures, object-actions (short for object-related-actions), word comprehension, and word production and their reciprocal relationships in typically developing infants. Twenty-two monolingual Italian infants were followed monthly from… read more
Stefanini, Silvia, Martina Recchia and Maria Cristina Caselli 2010 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming taskGestures in Language Development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 53–74 | Article
Ardito, Barbara, Maria Cristina Caselli, Angela Vecchietti and Virginia Volterra 2008 Deaf and hearing children: Reading together in preschoolSign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, Plaza-Pust, Carolina and Esperanza Morales-López (eds.), pp. 137–164 | Article
The present chapter describes an educational experience carried out within the project “Bilingual education towards deaf and hearing children’s integration”. The conceptual framework of the project refers to a bilingual approach which consists in exposing deaf and hearing kindergarten children to… read more
Stefanini, Silvia, Martina Recchia and Maria Cristina Caselli 2008 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming taskGestures in language development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 197–218 | Article
We examined the relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome (DS) in a naming task. Fifteen children with DS (3;8–8;3 years) were compared to 15 typically developing (TD) children matched for developmental age (DATD) (2;6–4;3 years… read more
Capirci, Olga, Annarita Contaldo, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra 2007 From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspectiveGestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 141–161 | Article
The present study reports empirical longitudinal data on the early stages of language development. The main hypothesis is that the output systems of speech and gesture may draw on underlying brain mechanisms common to both language and motor functions. We analyze the spontaneous interaction with… read more
Capirci, Olga, Annarita Contaldo, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra 2005 From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspectiveGestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 155–177 | Article
The present study reports empirical longitudinal data on the early stages of language development. The main hypothesis is that the output systems of speech and gesture may draw on underlying brain mechanisms common to both language and motor functions. We analyze the spontaneous interaction with… read more
Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli and Stefano Vicari 2004 Language in preschool Italian children withWilliams and Down syndromesWilliams Syndrome across Languages, Bartke, Susanne and Julia Siegmüller (eds.), pp. 163–186 | Article