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Assisted Imitation: First Steps in the Seed Model of Language Development
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Zukow-Goldring, Patricia – Language Sciences, 2012
In this article, I present the theoretical and empirical grounding for the SEED ("situated", culturally "embodied", "emergent", "distributed") model of early language development. A fundamental prerequisite to the emergence of language behavior/communication is a hands-on, active understanding of everyday events (, and ). At the heart of this…
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Caregivers' Gestures Direct Infant Attention during Early Word Learning: The Importance of Dynamic Synchrony
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Rader, Nancy de Villiers; Zukow-Goldring, Patricia – Language Sciences, 2012
How do young infants discover word meanings? We have theorized that caregivers educate infants' attention (cf. Gibson, J.J., 1966) by synchronizing the saying of a word with a dynamic gesture displaying the object/referent (Zukow-Goldring, 1997). Detecting an amodal invariant across gesture and speech brackets the word and object within the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Nonverbal Communication
Good Prospects: Ecological and Social Perspectives on Conforming, Creating, and Caring in Conversation
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Hodges, Bert H. – Language Sciences, 2007
Ecological approaches (e.g. [Gibson, J.J., 1979. "The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception." Houghton-Mifflin, Boston]) to psychology and language are selectively reviewed, focusing on social learning. Is social learning (e.g., acquiring language) a matter of conformity [Tomasello, M., 2006. "Acquiring linguistic…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Behavior, Holistic Approach, Moral Issues