Journal article
Effects of age and language on co-speech gesture production: an investigation of French, American, and Italian children's narratives
Journal of child language, Vol.42(1), pp.122-145
01/2015
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000913000585
PMID: 24529301
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to compare speech and co-speech gestures observed during a narrative retelling task in five- and ten-year-old children from three different linguistic groups, French, American, and Italian, in order to better understand the role of age and language in the development of multimodal monologue discourse abilities. We asked 98 five- and ten-year-old children to narrate a short, wordless cartoon. Results showed a common developmental trend as well as linguistic and gesture differences between the three language groups. In all three languages, older children were found to give more detailed narratives, to insert more comments, and to gesture more and use different gestures – specifically gestures that contribute to the narrative structure – than their younger counterparts. Taken together, these findings allow a tentative model of multimodal narrative development in which major changes in later language acquisition occur despite language and culture differences.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effects of age and language on co-speech gesture production: an investigation of French, American, and Italian children's narratives
- Creators
- JEAN-MARC COLLETTA - Université de Grenoble, LIDILEM, St Martin d'Hères, FranceMICHÈLE GUIDETTI - Université Toulouse 2, Octogone ECCD, Toulouse, FranceOLGA CAPIRCI - CNR, GLADD, Rome, ItalyCARLA CRISTILLI - University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, ItalyOzlem Ece Demir - Northwestern University, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Evanston, ILL, USARAMONA N KUNENE-NICOLAS - University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSASUSAN LEVINE - University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, Chicago, ILL, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of child language, Vol.42(1), pp.122-145
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0305000913000585
- PMID
- 24529301
- NLM abbreviation
- J Child Lang
- ISSN
- 0305-0009
- eISSN
- 1469-7602
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK
- Number of pages
- 24
- Alternative title
- AGE, LANGUAGE, AND CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984002416302771
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