TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lüke, Carina
A1  - Ritterfeld, Ute
A1  - Liszkowski, Ulf
T1  - In bilinguals' hands: identification of bilingual, preverbal infants at risk for language delay
JF  - Frontiers in Pediatrics
N2  - Studies with monolingual infants show that the gestural behavior of 1–2-year-olds is a strong predictor for later language competencies and, more specifically, that the absence of index-finger pointing at 12 months seems to be a valid indicator for risk of language delay (LD). In this study a lack of index-finger pointing at 12 months was utilized as diagnostic criterion to identity infants with a high risk for LD at 24 months in a sample of 42 infants growing up bilingually. Results confirm earlier findings from monolinguals showing that 12-month-olds who point with the extended index finger have an advanced language status at 24 months and are less likely language delayed than infants who only point with the whole hand and do not produce index-finger points at 12 months.
KW  - gesture
KW  - pointing
KW  - language delay
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - bilingualism
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-276639
SN  - 2296-2360
VL  - 10
ER  -