A cross cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and its relationship to language development

Thea Cameron-Faulkner; Nividita Malik; Circle Steele; Stefano Coretta; Ludovica Serratrice; elena lieven

doi:10.1111/cdev.13406

A cross cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and its relationship to language development

Thea Cameron-Faulkner, Nividita Malik, Circle Steele, Stefano Coretta, Ludovica Serratrice, elena lieven

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Many Western industrialized nations have high levels of ethnic diversity but to date there are very few studies which investigate prelinguistic and early language development in infants from ethnic minority backgrounds. This study tracked the development of infant communicative gestures from 10 to 12 months (n = 59) in three culturally distinct groups in the United Kingdom and measured their relationship, along with maternal utterance frequency and responsiveness, to vocabulary development at 12 and 18 months. No significant differences were found in infant gesture development and maternal responsiveness across the groups, but relationships were identified between gesture, maternal responsiveness, and vocabulary development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	273-290
Number of pages	18
Journal	Child Development
Volume	92
Issue number	1
Early online date	5 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13406
Publication status	Published - Jan 2021

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