@article{3a803038fc594a929a634e098c2efc0c,
title = "A cross cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and its relationship to language development",
abstract = "Many Western industrialised nations have high levels of ethnic diversity but to date there are very few studies which investigate prelinguistic and early language development in infants from ethnic minority backgrounds. The current study tracked the development of infant communicative gestures from 10 12 months (n=5 9) in three culturally distinct groups in the United Kingdom and measured their relationship, along with maternal utterance frequency and responsiveness, to vocabulary development at 12 and 18 months. No significant differences were found in infant gesture development and maternal responsiveness across the groups, but relationships were identified between gesture, maternal responsiveness and vocabulary development.",
author = "Thea Cameron-Faulkner and Nividita Malik and Circle Steele and Stefano Coretta and Ludovica Serratrice and Lieven, {E V M}",
note = "Funding Information: The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/L008955/1) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also thank the families who kindly participated in this study. Thanks also go to Saki Chowdhury, Hamida Begum, Naomi Rose, Ziyun Zhang and Sage Juliusburger for all their help. This article is in memory of Dr Sylvia Sham. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1111/cdev.13406",
language = "English",
volume = "92",
pages = "273--290",
journal = "Child Development",
issn = "0009-3920",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons Ltd",
number = "1",
}