Gestos pantomímicos e produção vocal na aquisição da linguagem

Abstract

The child language encompasses the gestural productions, eye gaze, facial expression, vocal production, etc. All these verbal and nonverbal aspects point to the existing multimodality in language from the earliest months of a child's life, since the gestures and vocal production does not occur at different times in language acquisition, both are produced simultaneously by babies in interactive contexts. The pantomimes, for example, are part of gesticulatório together are simulations of everyday actions and are present in moments of mother-infant interaction. Hence, the present study aims to understand the relationship between pantomímicos gestures and vocal production during the period of language acquisition. For this, we rely on the social interactionism proposed by Vygotsky (1984) and Tomasello (2003). Regarding gestures and multi-modality, we emphasize studies McNeill (1985), Kendon (1982), Choi (1994, 2008, 2012), Avila Nobrega (2010), and in relation to infant vocal production, we will outline the proposed Barros (2012) covering the babble, jargon, and holófrases blocks of statements. Methodologically, observe, transcribe and analyze the footage held naturalistic situations in the dyad I. LAFE Laboratory Acquisition of Speech and writing, has eight dyads with the age group of zero to thirty-six months. The analyzes reveal that the pantomímicos gestures are linked to infant vocal production, highlighting the gesture to simulate talking on the phone that is privileged by dyad during the process of language acquisition.