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  2. Gestures in language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    The first type of gestures that appear in infants are deictic gestures. [18] Deictic gestures include pointing, which is often the most common gesture produced at ten months of age. [16] [20] At eleven months of age children can produce a sequence of 2 gestures, usually a deictic gesture with a conventional or representational gesture.

  3. Gesture - Wikipedia

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    Deictic gestures can occur simultaneously with vocal speech or in place of it. Deictic gestures are gestures that consist of indicative or pointing motions. These gestures often work in the same way as demonstrative words and pronouns like "this" or "that". [19] Deictic gestures can refer to concrete or intangible objects or people.

  4. Deixis - Wikipedia

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    Image depicting temporal, spatial and personal deixis, including a deictic center. In linguistics, deixis (/ ˈ d aɪ k s ɪ s /, / ˈ d eɪ k s ɪ s /) [1] is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance. [2]

  5. Pointing - Wikipedia

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    Pointing to a location begins being deictic for deaf children and hearing alike, but becomes lexicalized for more mature signers. There is a distinction between linguistic pointing in ASL and gestural pointing by deaf users, the latter being identical for deaf and hearing people.

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  7. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    Children ages one to three often rely on general purpose deictic words such as "here", "that" or "look" accompanied by a gesture, which is most often pointing, to pick out specific objects. [43] Children also stretch already known or partly known words to cover other objects that appear similar to the original.

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  9. What will happen to Social Security under Trump’s tax plan?

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    Trump’s plan to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits would help current beneficiaries, but future recipients may be hurt by the move.