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Direct linkSuanda, Sumarga H.; Namy, Laura L. – Infancy, 2013
Infants' early communicative repertoires include both words and symbolic gestures. The current study examined the extent to which infants organize words and gestures in a single unified lexicon. As a window into lexical organization, eighteen-month-olds' ("N" = 32) avoidance of word-gesture overlap was examined and compared with…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary, Nonverbal Communication, Organization
Suanda, Sumarga H.; Namy, Laura L. – Child Development, 2013
Early in development, many word-learning phenomena generalize to symbolic gestures. The current study explored whether children avoid lexical overlap in the gestural modality, as they do in the verbal modality, within the context of ambiguous reference. Eighteen-month-olds' interpretations of words and symbolic gestures in a symbol-disambiguation…
Descriptors: Child Development, Nonverbal Communication, Toddlers, Vocabulary
