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Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think
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Gesture Paves the Way for Language Development
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Examination of children making the transition from single words to two-word combinations found that gesture had a tight relation to the children's lexical and syntactic development.
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The role of gesture in communication and thinking
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Explaining Math: Gesturing Lightens the Load
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It is suggested that, by reducing cognitive load, gesturing may also play a role in shaping that state, and gesturing appeared to save the speakers' cognitive resources on the explanation task, permitting the speakers to allocate more resources to the memory task.
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The mismatch between gesture and speech as an index of transitional knowledge
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Parent praise to 1- to 3-year-olds predicts children's motivational frameworks 5 years later.
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Although parents' early praise of inherent characteristics was not associated with children's later fixed-ability frameworks, parents' praise of children's effort at 14-38 months did predict incremental frameworks at 7-8 years, suggesting that causal mechanisms identified in experimental work may be operating in home environments.
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The Resilience of Language : What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language
Part 1: The Problem of Language Learning. Out of the Mouths of Babes. How Do Children Learn Language? Language-Learning Across the Globe. Language-Learning by Hand. Does More or Less Input Matter?…
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What makes us smart? Core knowledge and natural language
The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally
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It is found that the word orders speakers used in their everyday speech did not influence their nonverbal behavior, providing evidence for a natural order that the authors impose on events when describing and reconstructing them nonverbally and exploit when constructing language anew.
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Beyond words: the importance of gesture to researchers and learners.
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The next decade may well offer evidence of gesture's dual potential as an illuminating tool for researchers and as a facilitator of cognitive growth for learners themselves.
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