TABLE 1.
Number of Children Who Used Emotion, Feeling, and Time Gestures
| No. of Children Using Gesture |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gesture | Total | Infants | Toddlers | Earliest Age of Observed Use | |
| Emotion | Happy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12.9 months |
| Mada | 0a | 0a | 0 | 9.0 monthsa | |
| Sad | 6 | 3 | 3 | 10.9 months | |
| Scared | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11.1 months | |
| Feeling | Sleepy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14.7 months |
| Cold | 4 | 0 | 4 | 18.7 months | |
| Gentle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19.2 months | |
| Hurt | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16.7 months | |
| Loud | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17.5 months | |
| Time | Popsicle Time | 9 | 4 | 5 | 12.8 months |
| Wait | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17.2 months | |
| Later | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15.2 months | |
a
Though the mad gesture did not appear in our quantitative data, infants’ use of the mad gesture has appeared in systematically collected transcripts of child behavior in this cohort of children.