Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. About the authors ix
4. Gesture and multimodal development 1
5. Pointing gesture in young children 7
6. Support or competition? 27
7. From gesture to sign and from gesture to word 49
8. How the hands control attention during early word learning 79
9. Infant movement as a window into language processing 99
10. Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development 129
11. The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication 157
12. Transcribing and annotating multimodality 175
13. Mathematical learning and gesture 199
14. Index 221