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Mumford, Katherine H. and Kita, Sotaro (2016) At 10–12 months, pointing gesture handedness predicts the size of receptive vocabularies. Infancy, 21 (6). pp. 751-765. doi:10.1111/infa.12138 ISSN 1532-7078.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12138
Abstract
The close association between language and gesture has been widely studied (McNeill, 1985). It remains unclear, however, when and how this relationship originates ontogenetically. The current study investigated the relationship between vocabulary development and pointing handedness in 10 to 12-month-old infants. The study used cross sectional data from 16 infants. Infants took part in a pointing elicitation task and a grasping task in order to assess their pointing and grasping handedness. Further, parents filled out the Oxford Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) (Hamilton, Plunkett, & Schafer, 2000) in order to assess infants’ receptive and productive vocabularies. The result showed a positive, significant correlation between receptive vocabulary development and right-handed pointing. This relationship was not due to age or to vocalisations, which have not been ruled out by previous studies. Possible mechanisms behind this co-development are discussed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Infants -- Language -- Development, Pointing (Gesture), Speech and gesture, Language acquisition | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Infancy | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1532-7078 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | November 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 28 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 751-765 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/infa.12138 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 October 2018 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 October 2018 | ||||||||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||||||
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