Marklund Ulrika, Marklund Ellen, Gustavsson Lisa, Samuelsson Christina
Division of Sensory Organs and Communication, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Stockholm Municipality, Preschool Department, Stockholm, Sweden.
Scand J Psychol. 2025 Apr;66(2):219-230. doi: 10.1111/sjop.13077. Epub 2024 Oct 23.
In this study, the relationship between gestures and vocabulary size in 177 Swedish-learning 14-month-old children was examined. Gesture use, receptive, and expressive vocabulary were reported by caregivers with the Swedish version of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory, words and gestures, SECDI-1. Gesture types examined were referential gestures classified as either deictic gestures, conventional gestures, and object actions. A fine-grained analysis of gestures and lexicon was performed. Results show that percentage of gestures used by children significantly predicts percentage of words in their receptive vocabulary. However, looking at gesture type, only use of object actions significantly predicts percentage of words in the receptive vocabulary whereas use of conventional gestures does not. Deictic gestures showed a ceiling effect and were therefore not further used for analysis. The relationship between gesture use and vocabulary size was not impacted by semantic category (food or clothes). Vocabulary in both semantic categories was statistically predicted by object actions in only one semantic category.
在本研究中，对177名学习瑞典语的14个月大儿童的手势与词汇量之间的关系进行了考察。照料者使用瑞典语版的麦克阿瑟·贝茨交流发展量表（单词和手势，SECDI - 1）报告了儿童的手势使用情况、接受性词汇和表达性词汇。所考察的手势类型为指示性手势，分为指示手势、习俗手势和物体动作。对手势和词汇进行了细致的分析。结果表明，儿童使用手势的比例显著预测了其接受性词汇中单词的比例。然而，就手势类型而言，只有物体动作的使用显著预测了接受性词汇中单词的比例，而习俗手势的使用则不然。指示手势呈现出上限效应，因此未进一步用于分析。手势使用与词汇量之间的关系不受语义类别（食物或衣服）的影响。仅在一个语义类别中，物体动作在统计学上预测了两个语义类别中的词汇量。
