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Autor/inn/en | Demir, Özlem Ece; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan |
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Titel | A Tale of Two Hands: Children's Early Gesture Use in Narrative Production Predicts Later Narrative Structure in Speech |
Quelle | In: Journal of Child Language, 42 (2015) 3, S.662-681 (20 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0305-0009 |
DOI | 10.1017/S0305000914000415 |
Schlagwörter | Nonverbal Communication; Speech Communication; Predictor Variables; Vocabulary Development; Sentence Structure; Child Development; Language Skills; Story Telling; Age Differences; Young Children; Communication Strategies |
Abstract | Speakers of all ages spontaneously gesture as they talk. These gestures predict children's milestones in vocabulary and sentence structure. We ask whether gesture serves a similar role in the development of narrative skill. Children were asked to retell a story conveyed in a wordless cartoon at age five and then again at six, seven, and eight. Children's narrative structure in speech improved across these ages. At age five, many of the children expressed a character's viewpoint in gesture, and these children were more likely to tell better-structured stories at the later ages than children who did not produce character-viewpoint gestures at age five. In contrast, framing narratives from a character's perspective in speech at age five did not predict later narrative structure in speech. Gesture thus continues to act as a harbinger of change even as it assumes new roles in relation to discourse. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2020/1/01 |