From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children
by Volterra, Virginia; Erting, Carol J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1994-01-01
Publisher(s): Gallaudet Univ Pr
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Now available in paperback; ISBN 1-56368-078-5
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Hearing Children with Spoken Language Input | p. 5 |
| Social and Cognitive Determinants of Mutual Gaze Between Mother and Infant | p. 9 |
| Gestural Development, Dual-Directional Signaling, and the Transition to Words | p. 18 |
| Gestures, Words, and Early Object Sharing | p. 31 |
| Some Observations on the Origins of the Pointing Gesture | p. 42 |
| Communicative Gestures and First Words | p. 56 |
| Sign Language Among Hearing Infants: The Spontaneous Development of Symbolic Gestures | p. 68 |
| Vocal and Gestural Symbols: Similarities and Differences from 13 to 28 Months | p. 79 |
| Deaf Children with Sign Language Input | p. 93 |
| The Interactional Context of Deaf Mother - Infant Communication | p. 97 |
| Acquisition of the Handshape in American Sign Language: A Preliminary Analysis | p. 107 |
| Faces: The Relationship Between Language and Affect | p. 128 |
| The Early Development of Deixis in American Sign Language: What Is the Point? | p. 142 |
| The Transition from Gesture to Symbol in American Sign Language | p. 153 |
| Deaf Children Without Sign Language Input | p. 163 |
| The Development of Morphology Without a Conventional Language Model | p. 165 |
| Gesture in Hearing Mother-Deaf Child Interaction | p. 178 |
| The Interaction of Gesture and Speech in the Language Development of Two Profoundly Deaf Children | p. 187 |
| How Does Gestural Communication Become Language? | p. 205 |
| Hearing Children with Spoken and Sign Language Input | p. 217 |
| Early Sign Language Acquisition: Implications for Theories of Language Acquisition | p. 219 |
| Emergence of Mode-Finding and Mode-Switching in a Hearing Child of Deaf Parents | p. 233 |
| Hearing Children and Deaf Children Compared | p. 247 |
| Gesture in Early Child Language | p. 249 |
| From Communication to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children | p. 263 |
| Enhancement of Spatial Cognition in Deaf Children | p. 278 |
| Conclusion | p. 299 |
| References | p. 304 |
| Subject Index | p. 323 |
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