The Predictive Value of Non-Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent-Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age

Autor/inn/en	Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Dowling, Natalie; Demir-Lira, Ö. Ece; Prieto, Pilar; Goldin-Meadow, Susan
Titel	The Predictive Value of Non-Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent-Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 6, S.2335-2355 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid) ORCID (Dowling, Natalie) ORCID (Demir-Lira, Ö. Ece) ORCID (Prieto, Pilar) ORCID (Goldin-Meadow, Susan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13583
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Verbal Ability; Parent Child Relationship; Interaction; Prediction; Longitudinal Studies; Young Children; Pragmatics; Language Rhythm + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Mündliche Leistung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interaktion; Vorhersage; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Frühe Kindheit; Pragmalinguistik; Sprachrhythmus
Abstract	A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non-Hispanic, 87%) investigated whether the early production of non-referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to referential iconic gestures, in parent-child naturalistic interactions from 14 to 58 months old predicts narrative abilities at age 5. Results revealed that only non-referential beats significantly (p < 0.01) predicted later narrative productions. The pragmatic functions of the children's speech that accompany these gestures were also analyzed in a representative sample of 18 parent-child dyads, revealing that beats were typically associated with biased assertions or questions. These findings show that the early use of beats predicts narrative abilities later in development, and suggest that this relation is likely due to the pragmatic-structuring function that beats reflect in early discourse. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01