{ "item_title" : "Gesture in Language", "item_author" : [" Aliyah Morgenstern", "Susan Goldin-Meadow "], "item_description" : "Through constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children's language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly used together for communicative functions. Sensorimotor schemas provide the grounding of language in experience and lead to children's access to the symbolic function. With the emergence of vocal or signed productions, gestures do not disappear but remain functional and diversify in form and function as children become skilled adult multimodal conversationalists.This volume examines the role of gesture over the human lifespan in its complex interaction with speech and sign. Gesture is explored in the different stages before, during, and after language has fully developed and a special focus is placed on the role of gesture in language learning and cognitive development. Specific chapters are devoted to the use of gesture in atypical populations.CONTENTSContributorsAliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow1 Introduction to Gesture in LanguagePart I: An Emblematic Gesture: PointingKensy Cooperrider and Kate Mesh2 Pointing in Gesture and SignAliyah Morgenstern3 Early Pointing GesturesPart II: Gesture Before SpeechMeredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. Salo4 Early Gesture Predicts Later Language DevelopmentOlga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra5 Interaction Among Modalities and Within DevelopmentPart III: Gesture With Speech During Language LearningEve V. Clark and Barbara F. Kelly6 Constructing a System of Communication With Gestures and WordsPauline Beaupoil-Hourdel7 Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow8 Gesture Can Facilitate Children's Learning and Generalization of VerbsPart IV: Gesture After Speech Is MasteredJean-Marc Colletta9 On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in ChildrenSusan Wagner Cook10 Understanding How Gestures Are Produced and PerceivedTilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, and Seda AkbIyık11 Gesture in the Aging BrainPart V: Gesture With More Than One LanguageElena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson12 Gesture in Bilingual Language AcquisitionMarianne Gullberg13 Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users' Speech and GesturesGale Stam and Marion Tellier14 Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and TeachingAliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-MeadowAfterword: Gesture as Part of Language or Partner to Language Across the LifespanIndexAbout the Editors", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/3/11/056/498/311056498X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "152.99", "online_price" : "152.99", "our_price" : "152.99", "club_price" : "152.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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