Effects of Age and Language on Co-Speech Gesture Production: An Investigation of French, American, and Italian Children's Narratives

Autor/inn/en	Colletta, Jean-Marc; Guidetti, Michele; Capirci, Olga; Cristilli, Carla; Demir, Ozlem Ece; Kunene-Nicolas, Ramona N.; Levine, Susan
Titel	Effects of Age and Language on Co-Speech Gesture Production: An Investigation of French, American, and Italian Children's Narratives
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 42 (2015) 1, S.122-145 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000913000585
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Language Role; Young Children; Language Acquisition; Nonverbal Communication; Developmental Stages; Speech Communication; Cultural Differences; Cartoons; Discourse Analysis; Story Telling; Task Analysis; French; English; Italian; Contrastive Linguistics; Cross Cultural Studies; Narration; Skill Development; Language Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Frühe Kindheit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Kultureller Unterschied; Zeichentrickfilm; Diskursanalyse; Aufgabenanalyse; Französisch; English language; Englisch; Italienisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz
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. (As Provided).
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