Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Gesture and early bilingual development.

E Nicoladis1, R I Mayberry, F Genesee

  • 1Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Developmental Psychology
|March 19, 1999
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Delayed auditory experience results in past tense production difficulties and working memory deficits in children with cochlear implants: A comparison with children with developmental language disorder.

Neuropsychologia·2024
Same author

Exposure to sign language prior and after cochlear implantation increases language and cognitive skills in deaf children.

Developmental science·2024
Same author

A multi-group approach to examining language development in at-risk learners.

Journal of child language·2018
Same author

What stuttering reveals about the development of the gesture-speech relationship.

New directions for child development·1998
Same author

Language differentiation in early bilingual development.

Journal of child language·1995
Same author

Phonological awareness in young second language learners.

Journal of child language·1995
Same journal

The frequency of childhood gender-nonconforming behavior in a nationally representative sample.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Linking childhood adversity and daily hassles to adolescent sleep behaviors: Diurnal cortisol as a mediating pathway.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Infants' expectations about caregivers' comforting behavior and associations with maternal depressive symptoms at 6, 9, and 12 months.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Nonsymbolic ratio and fraction magnitude processing predict fraction knowledge in early grades.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

The growing influence of the parental monitoring-peer affiliation pathway in early adolescence.

Developmental psychology·2026
Same journal

Employing a cohort-sequential design spanning 30 years to understand trajectories of maturity fears.

Developmental psychology·2026
See all related articles

Bilingual children

Area of Science:

  • Developmental linguistics
  • Child language acquisition
  • Gesture studies

Background:

  • Bilingualism presents unique challenges and opportunities for child development.
  • Understanding the interplay between language and gesture is crucial for cognitive science.
  • Longitudinal studies offer deep insights into developmental trajectories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the longitudinal relationship between speech and gestural proficiency in bilingual children.
  • To examine the influence of language proficiency on gestural development.
  • To explore the connection between language development and specific gesture types.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study tracking 5 French-English bilingual boys from 2 to 3.5 years.
  • Data collected at 6-month intervals to observe developmental changes.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Analysis focused on gesture production rate, co-speech gestures, and gesture meaning relative to language proficiency.

    • Main Results:

    • Children exhibited adult-like gesture production rates and meaning from 2 years onward.
    • Iconic and beat gestures showed language-specific development linked to mean utterance length.
    • Pointing gestures did not display the same language-dependent developmental pattern.

    Conclusions:

    • The development of iconic and beat gestures appears more closely tied to language development than pointing gestures.
    • Language proficiency and developmental stage significantly influence specific types of gestural communication in bilingual children.
    • Findings contribute to understanding the intricate relationship between linguistic and gestural systems in early development.