Journal article
L’incidence de la culture et de la langue dans les récits parlés et les gestes d’enfants français, italiens et américains âgés de 6 et 10 ans
Lidil, Vol.42, pp.139-158
11/30/2010
DOI: 10.4000/lidil.3078
Abstract
It has been demonstrated that culture, language and age have an effect on language behavior. In this paper, we study the way speech and gesture narrative behavior respond to these three factors in order to better understand the respective role of linguistic acquisition and cognitive development in the building of monologic discourse abilities. We asked over 150 six years old and ten years old French, Italian and American children to narrate from a short speechless cartoon. All narratives were transcribed with an annotation tool designed to annotate for gesture and speech. The first results show that French children are greater talkers whereas Italian children are greater gesturers and use a lot of referential gestures, whereas American children deliver shorter narratives with fewer gestures. We observe age differences among all children on language behavior and on the gesture coding of discourse cohesion as well as on the gesture representation of events. Monologic discourse abilities and related cognitive abilities seem to occur in all populations in the same developmental stages.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- L’incidence de la culture et de la langue dans les récits parlés et les gestes d’enfants français, italiens et américains âgés de 6 et 10 ans
- Creators
- Olga CapirciJean-Marc CollettaCarla CristilliÖzlem Ece DemirMichèle GuidettiSusan Levine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Lidil, Vol.42, pp.139-158
- DOI
- 10.4000/lidil.3078
- ISSN
- 1146-6480
- eISSN
- 1960-6052
- Alternative title
- The effect of culture and language on the spoken narratives and gestures of 6 to 10 years-old French, Italian and American children
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/30/2010
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984071673402771
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