摘要：This study examined variability of gestures and their correlation with vocabulary acquisition in thecommumication of infants. Subjects were 96 infants,7 to 24 months of age,residing in Seoul and. itsvicinity. Instruments were the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (Iverson,et al,1999) andthe the MacAuther Communicative Development Inventory-Korean (Bae and Lim,2002). Data wereanalyzed by one-way ANOVA and Pearson's Correlation. Results identified monthly changes in typesof communicative gesture used by infants: more deictic at younger and more representational at olderages. Deictic gestures were related. to size of the receptive vocabulary and size of the whole vocabulary.Representational gestures were related to acquisition of expressive vocabulary,size of the receptive,andsize of the whole vocabulary.
关键词：communicative gesture;deictic;conventional;representational;acquisition of vocabulary;receptive;expressive vocabulary
