Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development

Rowe, Meredith L.; Özçalışkan, Şeyda; Goldin-Meadow, Susan

doi:10.1177/0142723707088310

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Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development

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Rowe, Meredith L., Özçalışkan, Şeyda, Goldin-Meadow, Susan·2008·First Language

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Children vary widely in how quickly their vocabularies grow. Can looking at early gesture use in children and parents help us predict this variability? We videotaped 53 English-speaking parent-child dyads in their homes during their daily activities for 90-minutes every four months between child age 14 and 34 months. At 42 months, children were given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). We found that child gesture use at 14 months was a significant predictor of vocabulary size at 42 months, above and beyond the effects of parent and child word use at 14 months. Parent gesture use at 14 months was not directly related to vocabulary development, but did relate to child gesture use at 14 months which, in turn, predicted child vocabulary. These relations hold even when background factors such as socio-economic status are controlled. The findings underscore the importance of examining early gesture when predicting child vocabulary development.

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Authors: Rowe, M. L., Özçalışkan, Ş., & Goldin-Meadow, S.
Affiliations: University of Chicago (US)
University of Chicago
Corresponding author: Rowe, Meredith L.
ORCID: Rowe, Meredith L.
Özçalışkan, Şeyda
Venue: First Language
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008-05
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
Pages: 182-199
ISSN: 0142-7237 (ISSN-L)
1740-2344
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707088310
PMC: PMC2745165
OpenAlex: W2036222349
Cited by: 315
References: 37
Citations by year: 2026: 12 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 21
FWCI: 12.89
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: First Language (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (F32HD045099, P01HD040605)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords: vocabulary development, predictive validity, parent-child interaction, early childhood language development, home language environment, socioeconomic status, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, child-directed speech

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