How Do Preschoolers Express Cause in Gesture and Speech?

Autor/inn/en	Goksun, Tilbe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick
Titel	How Do Preschoolers Express Cause in Gesture and Speech?
Quelle	In: Cognitive Development, 25 (2010) 1, S.56-68 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.11.001
Schlagwörter	Sentence Structure; Nonverbal Communication; Preschool Children; Speech Communication; Child Language; English; Native Speakers; Age Differences; Cognitive Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; English language; Englisch; Muttersprachler; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	Upon witnessing a causal event, do children's gestures encode causal knowledge that (a) does not appear in their linguistic descriptions or (b) conveys the same information as their sentential expressions? The former use of gesture is considered supplementary; the latter is considered reinforcing. Sixty-four English-speaking children aged 2.5-5 years described an action in which the experimenter pushed a ball across a small pool with a stick. Over time, children produced more complete sentences expressing causal relations, encoding more of the elements in the event. Younger children produced noncausal sentences and location gestures that referred to or highlighted the goal of the action. Older children used both reinforcing and supplementary gestures conveying the instrument (e.g., the stick) and direction (e.g., from left to right) of the action. These findings present a noncausal to causal developmental trajectory both in speech and gesture. Among older children, results also suggest that gestures carry causal information before they form complete sentences to express causal events. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10