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Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life.
PLoS One
January 2025
Origin of Language Laboratories, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America.
Speculations on the evolution of language have invoked comparisons across human and non-human primate communication. While there is widespread support for the claim that gesture plays a central, perhaps a predominant role in early language development and that gesture played the foundational role in language evolution, much empirical information does not accord with the gestural claims. The present study follows up on our prior work that challenged the gestural theory of language development with longitudinal data showing early speech-like vocalizations occurred more than 5 times as often as gestures in the first year of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSecond-language speakers are more likely to strategically reuse the words of their conversation partners (Zhang & Nicol, 2022). This study investigates if this is also the case for lower-proficiency bilinguals from a bilingual community, who use language more implicitly, and if there is more alignment with lower than with higher proficiency, provided the words to be aligned to are all highly familiar. In two experiments, Spanish-English bilinguals took turns with a confederate to name and match pictures in Spanish.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProtocol for the assessment of the development of pragmatic competencies in early childhood (PDP-PI).
Front Psychol
December 2024
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Salamanca University, Salamanca, Spain.
Introduction: The design of a Protocol for the Assessment of the development of pragmatic competences in early childhood (PDP-PI) and the preliminary data obtained in a comparative study in 3-5-year-old school children are presented.
Methods: The design of the protocol is based on a model of global understanding of pragmatics that considers essential to include linguistic, intersubjective and social aspects in order to make an adequate assessment of development. Based on the taxonomies of communicative functions, four basic competencies are described (Interactional, Referential, Subjective and Figurative).
Forms and Functions of Gestures in Preverbal 12- to 15-Months Old Infants.
Infancy
December 2024
Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences (CRPN), CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Speech and co-speech gestures always go hand in hand. Whether we find the precursors of these co-speech gestures in infants before they master their native language still remains an open question. Except for deictic gestures, there is little agreement on the existence of iconic, non-referential and conventional gestures before children start producing their first words.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExamining how topicality impacts pronoun resolution in second language processing.
Front Hum Neurosci
November 2024
Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States.
In research on second language (L2) processing, the processing of reference has been highlighted as a domain of particular difficulty, but the source of the difficulty is not well understood. The present study examines whether differences in the pronominal systems of the first language (L1) and L2 impact processing. We take a novel approach, testing a group of intermediate-advanced L2 learners in both their L1 (Mandarin Chinese) and L2 (English), allowing us to directly examine whether L2 learners show similar or different patterns when processing the L1 and L2.
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