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What's Hidden in the Hands? How Children Use Gesture to Convey Arguments in a Motion Event
Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.31(1), pp.172-183
01/01/2007
Abstract
As Turkish, unlike English, permits argument omission & typical Turkish-speaking children frequently omit actor &/or recipient arguments in describing motion events, the possibility of concomitant cross-linguistic differences in the use of gestures to indicate actor & recipient referents is investigated in an analysis of videotaped descriptions of 34 motion events by English-speaking children in the US & Turkish-speaking children in Turkey (N = 9 & 10 respectively, mean ages 4:3 & 3:10). Results show that, whereas English-speaking Ss are more likely that Turkish Ss to express arguments overtly, the latter used gestures to supplement argument omissions & to disambiguate pronouns more frequently than the English-speaking Ss, with the result that both groups provided an equivalent amount of argument information when speech & gesture are combined. Figures, References. J. Hitchcock
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- What's Hidden in the Hands? How Children Use Gesture to Convey Arguments in a Motion Event
- Creators
- Ozlem Ece DemirWing Chee So
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.31(1), pp.172-183
- ISSN
- 1080-692X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984071658402771
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