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Language Development in Infancy Gestural Signing in Language Development The term 'language development' as applied to hearing children typically refers to communication in the verbal modality. However, focusing only on verbal communication ignores another avenue available to hearing infants, the use of simple gestures to represent objects (e.g., sniffing for 'flower'), conditions (e.g., blowing for 'hot'), and desires (e.g., finger tips tapping for 'more'). The goal in this study was to document spontaneous development of symbolic gestures by infants. The researchers show that most babies create at least one or two such symbolic gestures and that some children create many. The article also describes (a) relations with verbal development, (b) the sources of the gestures in the babies' everyday lives, (c) and gender and birth order differences. Results of a cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have shown that infants between 10 and 20 months are so highly motivated to...

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