Preparatory Readings

Armstrong, D.; Stokoe, W.C.; Wilcox, S. E. (1995). Gesture and the Nature of Language Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press

Beattie, G. (2004). Visible Thoughts: The new psychology of body language. Routledge.

Blake, J. (2000). Routes to child language: Evolutionary and developmental precursors. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Camaioni L. (1993). The development of intentional communication: A re-analysis. In J. Nadel, L. Camaioni (Eds.) New Perspectives in Early Communicative Development, London: Routledge, 82-96.

Camaioni L. (1997). The emergence of intentional communication in ontogeny, phylogeny and pathology. European Psychologist, 2, 3, 216-225.

Camaioni L., Perucchini P., Muratori F., Milone A. (1997). A longitudinal examination of the communicative gestures deficit in young children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 27, 6, 715-725.

Camaioni L., Perucchini P., Muratori F., Parrini B., Cesari A. (2003). The comunicative use of pointing in autism: Developmental profiles and factors related to change. European Psychiatry, 18, 1, 6-12.

Camaioni L., Perucchini P., Bellagamba F., Colonnesi C. (2004). The role of declarative pointing in developing a theory of mind. Infancy, 5, 3.

Corballis, M. C. (2002). From hand to mouth: the origins of language. Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press

Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003). The resilience of language. What gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language (Essays in Developmental Psychology). Psychology Press.

Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003). Hearing gesture: How our hands help us think. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Hewes, G. W. (1973). Primate communication and the gestural origin of language. Current Anthropology 12(1-2): 5-24. [pdf]

Hopkins, W. D.; D. A. Leavens (1998). Hand use and gestural communication in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology 112(1): 95-99. [pdf]

Kendon, A. (forthcoming) Gesture: Visible action as utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

King, B. J. (Ed.) (1999). The origins of language: what nonhuman primates can tell us. Santa Fe, N.M., School of American Research.

Kita, S.; Özyürek, A. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking. Journal of Memory and Language 48: 16-32 [pdf]

Leavens David A., Autumn B. Hostetter, Michael J . Wesley, & William D. Hopkins (2004) Tactical use of unimodal and bimodal communication by chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. Animal Behaviour, 2004, 67, 467-476 [pdf]

Liddell, Scott K. (2003). Grammar, gesture, and meaning in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maestripieri, D. (1999). Primate social organization, gestural repertoire size, and communication dynamics: a comparative study of macaques. In: The Evolution of Language: Assessing the Evidence from Nonhuman Primates. B. J. King (Ed). Santa Fe, School of American Research.

McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and Mind. What gestures reveal about thought. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

McNeill, D. (Ed.) (2000). Language and gesture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morford, J. P. (1996). Insights to language from the study of gesture: a review of research on the gestural communication of non-signing deaf people. Language & Communication 16(2): 165-178. [pdf]

Müller, C. (1998). Redebegleitende Gesten. Kulturgeschichte - Theorie - Sprachvergleich. (Bd. 1 der Reihe 'Körper - Kultur- Kommunikation' hg.v. H. Kalverkämper, R. Krüger und R. Posner), Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz: Berlin.

Müller, C.; Posner, R. (Eds.) (2004). The semantics and pragmatics of everyday gestures. The Berlin conference. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag.

Stokoe, W. C. (2001). Language in hand: Why sign came before speech. Washington, D. C.: Gallaudet University Press.

Taub, S. (2001). Language from the body. Iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tomasello M.; Zuberbuehler, K. (2002). Primate vocal and gestural communication. In: Bekoff M, Allen CS, Burghardt G (eds) The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition. The MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 293-29.

Tomasello, M.; Call, J.; Warren, J.; Frost, T.; Carpenter, M.; Nagell, K. (1997). The ontogeny of chimpanzee gestural signals: A comparison across groups and generations. Evolution of Communication 1:223-253.

Tomasello, M.; Camaioni (1997). A comparison of the gestural communication of apes and human infants. Human Development 40: 7-24.

Volterra, V.; Caselli, M. C.; Capirci, O.; Pizzuto, E. (forthcoming). Gesture and the emergence and development of language. In Tomasello, M.; Slobin, D. (Eds.). Elizabeth Bates: A Festschrift. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates [pdf]