Individual Differences in Language Development: Relationship with Motor Skill at 21 Months

Autor/inn/en	Alcock, Katherine J.; Krawczyk, Kirsty
Titel	Individual Differences in Language Development: Relationship with Motor Skill at 21 Months
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 13 (2010) 5, S.677-691 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00924.x
Schlagwörter	Psychomotor Skills; Motor Development; Language Acquisition; Individual Differences; Young Children; Memory; Language Skills; Cognitive Ability; Socioeconomic Influences; Correlation; Vocabulary; Sentences; Comprehension; Neurological Organization; Oral Language; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychomotorische Aktivität; Motorische Entwicklung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Individueller Unterschied; Frühe Kindheit; Gedächtnis; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Denkfähigkeit; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Korrelation; Wortschatz; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Language development has long been associated with motor development, particularly manual gesture. We examined a variety of motor abilities--manual gesture including symbolic, meaningless and sequential memory, oral motor control, gross and fine motor control--in 129 children aged 21 months. Language abilities were assessed and cognitive and socio-economic measures controlled for. Oral motor control was strongly associated with language production (vocabulary and sentence complexity), with some contribution from symbolic abilities. Language comprehension, however, was associated with cognitive and socio-economic measures. We conclude that symbolic, working memory, and mirror neuron accounts of language-motor control links are limited, but that a common neural and motor substrate for nonverbal and verbal oral movements may drive the motor-language association. (As Provided).
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