The relation between pointing and language development: A meta-analysis
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Children's points strongly predict their concurrent and longitudinal language outcomes.
“Children's points have been particularly well‐studied in a broad age range of children and strongly predict their concurrent and longitudinal language outcomes (for meta‐analyses, see Colonnesi et al., 2010; Kirk et al., 2022)”
From The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes (2025) · cites this paper as Colonnesi et al., 2010
The relationship between infants' points and children's vocabulary becomes stronger with age.
“The meta‐analyses revealed that the relationship between infants' points and children's vocabulary becomes stronger with age (Colonnesi et al., 2010; Kirk et al., 2022).”
From The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes (2025) · cites this paper as Colonnesi et al., 2010
Infants' points have often been found to predict children's concurrent and longitudinal vocabulary outcomes.
“The finding that infants' points are a robust predictor of children's longitudinal vocabulary outcomes agrees with previous studies, as infants' points have often been found to predict children's concurrent and longitudinal vocabulary outcomes (for meta‐analyses, see Colonnesi et al., 2010; Kirk et al., 2022).”
From The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes (2025) · cites this paper as Colonnesi et al., 2010
Predictive relations between infants' pointing gestures and children's vocabulary outcomes increase with age.
“In addition, predictive relations between, for example, infants' pointing gestures and children's vocabulary outcomes increase with age (e.g., Colonnesi et al., 2010).”
From The role of dyadic combinations of infants' behaviors and caregivers' verbal and multimodal responses in predicting vocabulary outcomes (2025) · cites this paper as Colonnesi et al., 2010
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- Authors
- Colonnesi, C., Stams, G. J. J. M., Koster, I., & Noom, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Colonnesi, Cristina
- Venue
- Developmental Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 352-366
- ISSN
- 0273-2297 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2007336324
- Cited by
- 405
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 1.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Developmental Review (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Keywords
- pointing gestures, language development, joint attention, intentional communication, early childhood, socioeconomic status, language acquisition
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