Gesture and Multimodal Development -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Gesture and multimodal development -- References -- Pointing gesture in young children -- Relations with language development -- Origins of pointing gestures -- Cognitive abilities and pointing -- Different communicative intentions -- Handedness and language development -- Manual preference for pointing gestures -- Manipulative activities vs. pointing gestures -- Manipulative activities, pointing gestures and language -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Different hand shapes for pointing -- Support or competition? -- Pointing -- Symbolic gestures -- Relation of symbolic skills to one another -- The current study -- Methods -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- From gesture to sign and from gesture to word -- Literature review on the issues at stake -- Pointing gestures in ontogeny -- The role of pointing gestures in interaction -- The role of pointing gestures in language acquisition -- Research questions and hypotheses -- Methodology -- Participants -- Differences between modalities -- Transcriptions -- Coding system and analytical methods -- Quantitative results -- Development of pointing gestures in the three girls' data -- Development of pointing gestures and words/signs -- Discussion -- Number of pointing gestures -- Pointing towards persons and self -- Development of pointing gestures and words/signs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- How the hands control attention during early word learning -- Summary and research hypotheses -- General method -- Overview -- Participants -- Stimuli -- Procedure -- Data analysis -- Experiment 1 -- Goal and research hypotheses -- Participants -- Results and discussion -- Experiment 2 -- Goal and research hypotheses.

Participants -- Results and discussion -- Combined analyses for Experiments 1 and 2 -- Summary and concluding discussion -- Summary of results -- General discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Infant movement as a window into language processing -- Introduction -- Methods -- Studies -- Participants -- Speech discrimination study -- Study on the perception of melody -- Procedure -- Movement coding -- Analysis -- Background and Results -- Vocalization and mouth movement: Background -- Vocalization and mouth movement: Results and discussion -- Gaze shifting and head movement: Background -- Gaze shifting and head movement: Results and discussion -- Torso movement: Background -- Torso movement: Results and discussion -- Arm and hand movement, and finger gesture: Background -- Arm and hand movement and finger gesture: Results and discussion -- General discussion -- Implications and future work -- Notes -- References -- Children's lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development -- Introduction -- Parental multimodal behavior modifications -- Parent and child as a system -- The parent-child system in atypical populations -- Task-dependent modification of communicative behavior -- The present study -- Method -- Participants -- Assessing the children's lexical skills -- Procedure -- Stimuli -- Task outcome -- Data Coding -- Category system for the nonverbal behavior -- Semantic correspondence between speech and gesture -- Duration of gestures -- Proportion of speech and gesture -- Interrater reliability -- Results -- Overall verbal communication -- Task success -- Influence of lexical skills on maternal gestural behavior -- Semantic correspondence between speech and deictic gesture -- Duration of deictic gestures -- Task demands -- Discussion.

Do mothers alter their (pointing) behavior in dependence of children's lexical development? -- Do task demands change maternal gestural behavior? -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Appendix -- The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Coding -- Reliability -- Results -- Language -- Gestures -- Language and Gesture combinations -- Discussion -- Note -- References -- Transcribing and annotating multimodality -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspective -- Deaf multimodality -- Multimodality: Joint or parallel productions -- The initial grid -- Verbal and non-verbal discursive material: The (multiple) reality of deaf children -- Accounting for integrated language expression -- Defining a base unit in the context of deaf multimodality -- Multimodality and bilingualism: Cross-semiotic economies -- Multimodality: The complexity of semiotic relationships -- From gesture to sign: Categorization and language pertinence -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Appendix I: Cartoon script -- Mathematical learning and gesture -- Introduction -- Character and observer viewpoint in gesture -- Effects of C-VPT and O-VPT in the literature: Gesture studies, embodied knowing, and cognitive science -- The role of multiple modalities in mathematics education -- Two studies -- Study 1: Research questions -- Study 1: Methods -- Study 1: Coding the data -- Study 1: Results -- Study 2: Research questions -- Study 2: Methods -- Study 2: Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Written Post Test -- Index.