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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Goodrich, Whitney; Sauer, Eve; Iverson, Jana – Developmental Science, 2007
Children produce their first gestures before their first words, and their first gesture+word sentences before their first word+word sentences. These gestural accomplishments have been found not only to predate linguistic milestones, but also to predict them. Findings of this sort suggest that gesture itself might be playing a role in the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mothers, Linguistics, Young Children