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2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The qualification of pointing gestures by infants connecting the language learning

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 25780396
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Educational psychology
Research InstitutionUniversity of the Sacred Heart

Principal Investigator

Kishimoto Takeshi  聖心女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20550958)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Keywords指さし / 言語 / 乳幼児 / 家庭環境 / 呈示
Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are conflicting results about whether the frequency of deictic gestures by infants predicts the following linguistic development. In this study we planned to reveal the reason why such conflicting results exist, and to find the behavioral index related to the deictic gestures that predict the infants’ linguistic development more accurately.
Although I could not find the infants’ behavioral index that predicted their linguistic development, I found that the infants’ production of deictic gestures is influenced by the infants’ home environment. This suggests that the infants’ ability of producing deictic gestures were misestimated in the studies using questionnaire about infants’ pointing production in home.

Free Research Field

比較発達心理学

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Published: 2017-05-10  

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