Gestures in language acquisition are a form of non-verbal communication involving movements of the hands, arms, and/or other parts of the body. Children...

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain...

encouragement, signing develops from a natural stage in infant development known as gesture. These gestures are taught in conjunction with speech to hearing children...

Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process of learning...

contemporary language diversity. They may also study language acquisition as well as comparisons between human language and systems of animal communication (particularly...

spoken language is a form of communication produced through articulate sounds or, in some cases, through manual gestures, as opposed to written language. Oral...

instead on observing apes' intraspecies communication in zoos and natural habitats. This includes gestures, facial expressions, and vocalizations. Richard Lynch...

unable to communicate with language. Instead, infants communicate with gestures. This phenomenon is known as prelinguistic gestures, which are nonverbal ways...

communication strategies to her general theory of second-language acquisition. There was more activity in the 1990s with a collection of papers by Kasper and...

gestures and elements of their home-sign systems, a pidgin-like form and a creole-like language rapidly emerged — they were creating their language....

communication using hand gestures date back as far as 5th century BC Greece. Sign language is composed of a system of conventional gestures, mimic, hand signs...

Language acquisition is a natural process in which infants and children develop proficiency in the first language or languages that they are exposed to...

vocalization. Animal language Body language Braille Fingerspelling Chereme Chinese number gestures Hearing loss Gang signal Gestures Intercultural competence...

includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space. Although body language is an important part of communication...

ISBN 9780313396977. Gambhir, Vijay (1996). The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 87. ISBN 0-8122-3328-X...

or gestures. Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition of language and meaning, when used as a general concept, "language" may...

"Comparing Action Gestures and Classifier Verbs of Motion: Evidence From Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and Nonsigners' Gestures Without Speech"...

second language acquisition theories of Stephen Krashen, hold that the best way to help students develop both fluency and accuracy in a language is to...

relationship of language to thought, and the gestures that accompany discourse. David McNeill is a professor of the University of Chicago in Illinois, and...

is any non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language. Several species or groups of animals have developed...

gestures and rituals, such as a secret handshake, which allows members to recognize each other. In some languages and cultures, the word or gesture is...

Willerman defined the three primary manual gestures as pointing, reaching, and waving. These common communicative gestures are different from babbles because...

to hearing children. They concluded that the acquisition of (spatial) language is an important factor in shaping spatial cognition. Several mechanisms...

and index finger, although it may be functionally similar to other hand gestures. Types of pointing may be subdivided according to the intention of the...

This message is language. In normal language acquisition, auditory comprehension of speech sounds precedes the development of language. Without auditory...

expert and leading researcher in child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, aphasia, and the neurological bases of language, and she authored 10 books...

meaning is reliant on gesture. Anne Carter observed, however, that in the early stages of word acquisition children use gestures primarily to communicate...

the semantic content of the gesture plays a role as well. Iconic gestures enhance memory compared to meaningless gestures which have no positive effect...

Washoe. Washoe could use 68 gestures after three years of training, eventually getting to 150 gestures. However, Nim, trained in ASL, was found to demonstrate...

is a Swedish psycholinguist specializing in second language acquisition, processing and the study of gesture. Gullberg carried out her doctoral research...