Journal article
The Predictive Value of Non-Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent-Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age
Child development, Vol.92(6), pp.2335-2355
05/21/2021
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13583
PMID: 34018614
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 < .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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Predictive Value of Non-Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent-Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age
- Creators
- Ingrid Vilà-Giménez - Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de GironaNatalie Dowling - University of ChicagoÖ Ece Demir-Lira - University of Iowa, DeLTA Center and Iowa Neuroscience InstitutePilar Prieto - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu FabraSusan Goldin-Meadow - University of Chicago
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.92(6), pp.2335-2355
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1111/cdev.13583
- PMID
- 34018614
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Grant note
- PGC2018-097007-B-100 / Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) 2019FI_B2_00125 / Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca P01HD040605 / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health 2017 SGR_971 / Generalitat de Catalunya
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/21/2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984080409602771
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