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| Autor/inn/en | Demir, Ozlem Ece; So, Wing-Chee; Ozyurek, Asli; Goldin-Meadow, Susan |
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| Titel | Turkish- and English-Speaking Children Display Sensitivity to Perceptual Context in the Referring Expressions They Produce in Speech and Gesture |
| Quelle | In: Language and Cognitive Processes, 27 (2012) 6, S.844-867 (24 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0169-0965 |
| DOI | 10.1080/01690965.2011.589273 |
| Schlagwörter | Speech Communication; Nouns; Monolingualism; Language Acquisition; English; Turkish; Language Usage; Context Effect; Nonverbal Communication; Vignettes; Perceptual Development; Foreign Countries; Semantics; Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Differences; Children; Turkey; United States |
| Abstract | Speakers choose a particular expression based on many factors, including availability of the referent in the perceptual context. We examined whether, when expressing referents, monolingual English- and Turkish-speaking children: (1) are sensitive to perceptual context, (2) express this sensitivity in language-specific ways, and (3) use co-speech gestures to specify referents that are underspecified. We also explored the mechanisms underlying children's sensitivity to perceptual context. Children described short vignettes to an experimenter under two conditions: The characters in the vignettes were present in the perceptual context ("perceptual context"); the characters were absent ("no perceptual context"). Children routinely used nouns in the "no perceptual context" condition, but shifted to pronouns (English-speaking children) or omitted arguments (Turkish-speaking children) in the "perceptual context" condition. Turkish-speaking children used underspecified referents more frequently than English-speaking children in the "perceptual context" condition; however, they compensated for the difference by using gesture to specify the forms. Gesture thus gives children learning structurally different languages a way to achieve comparable levels of specification while at the same time adhering to the referential expressions dictated by their language. (Contains 3 figures and 14 footnotes.) (As Provided). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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