Exploring the relation between memory, gestural communication, and the emergence of language in infancy: a longitudinal study
✍ Scribed by Mikael Heimann; Karin Strid; Lars Smith; Tomas Tjus; Stein Erik Ulvund; Andrew N. Meltzoff
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-7227
- DOI
- 10.1002/icd.462
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✦ Synopsis
The relationship between recall memory, visual recognition memory, social communication, and the emergence of language skills was measured in a longitudinal study. Thirty typically developing Swedish children were tested at 6, 9 and 14 months. The result showed that, in combination, visual recognition memory at 6 months, deferred imitation at 9 months and turn-taking skills at 14 months could explain 41% of the variance in the infants' production of communicative gestures as measured by a Swedish variant of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI). In this statistical model, deferred imitation stood out as the strongest predictor.