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Mumford, Katherine H. and Kita, Sotaro (2014) Children use gesture to interpret novel verb meanings. Child Development, Volume 85 (Number 3). pp. 1181-1189. doi:10.1111/cdev.12188 ISSN 0009-3920.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12188
Abstract
Children often find it difficult to map verbs to specific referents within complex scenes, often believing that additional features are part of the referents. This study investigated whether 3-year-olds could use iconic gestures to map novel verbs to specific referents. One hundred and twenty children were taught verbs that could be interpreted as change-of-state or manner verbs while presented with manner, end-state, or no iconic gestures. Children were then presented with a choice that forced them to generalize either on the basis of manner or end state. Results showed that children who saw manner gestures showed a stronger manner bias compared to the other groups. Thus, the specific feature of an event encoded in gestures guides children's interpretations of novel words.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition, Speech and gesture | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0009-3920 | ||||||
Official Date: | June 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 85 | ||||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1181-1189 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.12188 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||
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