Sekine, Kazuki and Kita, Sotaro (2015) Development of multimodal discourse comprehension : cohesive use of space by gestures. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30 (10). 1245-1258 . doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1053814 ISSN 2327-3801.
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Abstract
This study examined how well 5-, 6-, 10-year-olds and adults integrated information from spoken discourse with cohesive use of space in gesture, in comprehension. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with a combination of spoken discourse and a sequence of cohesive gestures, which consistently located each of the two protagonists in two distinct locations in gesture space. Participants were asked to select an interpretation of the final sentence that best matched the preceding spoken and gestural contexts. Adults and 10-year-olds performed better than 5-year-olds, who were at chance level. In Experiment 2, another group of 5-year-olds were presented with the same stimuli as in Experiment 1, except that the actor showed hand-held pictures, instead of producing cohesive gestures. Unlike cohesive gestures, one set of pictures was self-explanatory, and did not require integration with the concurrent speech to derive the referent. With these pictures, 5-year-olds performed nearly perfectly and their performance in the identifiable pictures was significantly better than those in the unidentifiable pictures. These results suggest that young children failed to integrate spoken discourse and cohesive use of space in gestures, because they cannot derive a referent of cohesive gestures from the local speech context.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Speech and gesture, Language and languages, Multimedia communications, Preschool children, Children -- Language, Language acquisition, Discourse analysis, Modality (Linguistics) |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 2327-3801 |
| Official Date: | 20 July 2015 |
| Dates: | Date Event 20 July 2015 Published 12 May 2015 Accepted 12 January 2014 Submitted |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Number: | 10 |
| Page Range: | 1245-1258 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23273798.2015.1053814 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 |
| Funder: | Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science] (NGS) |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/67617/ |
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