University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA.
J Child Lang. 2010 Mar;37(2):229-61. doi: 10.1017/S0305000909990432. Epub 2010 Jan 25.
ABSTRACTDuring the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the environment. In this review article, I argue that motor acquisitions provide infants with an opportunity to practice skills relevant to language acquisition before they are needed for that purpose; and that the emergence of new motor skills changes infants' experience with objects and people in ways that are relevant for both general communicative development and the acquisition of language. Implications of this perspective for current views of co-occurring language and motor impairments and for methodology in the field of child language research are also considered.
摘要在生命的头十八个月中,婴儿习得并完善了一整套全新的运动技能,这极大地改变了身体在环境中运动和互动的方式。在这篇综述文章中,我认为运动技能的习得为婴儿提供了一个在需要这些技能之前练习与语言习得相关技能的机会;并且新运动技能的出现改变了婴儿与物体和人的互动方式,这对于一般的交际发展和语言习得都是相关的。这一观点对当前语言和运动障碍共患的观点以及儿童语言研究领域的方法学也具有启示意义。