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How seeing iconic gestures facilitates action event memory and verb learning in 3-year-old children
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Aussems, Suzanne (2020) How seeing iconic gestures facilitates action event memory and verb learning in 3-year-old children. Language Acquisition, 27 (1). pp. 68-70. doi:10.1080/10489223.2019.1624759 ISSN 1048-9223.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2019.1624759
Abstract
This dissertation expands our theoretical understanding of how iconic gesture promotes language acquisition, by revealing three novel functions of gesture: 1) directing children’s attention to those aspects of events where important information can be seen, 2)integrating information from multiple (unlabeled) exemplars for subsequent verb learning, and3) promoting abstract linguistic knowledge of the sub-category locomotion verbs. It thus shows that iconic gesture is an excellent tool for promoting children’s word learning. This is important, because the vocabulary size of preschool-aged children is a major predictor of school success (Rowe, Raudenbusch & Goldin-Meadow, 2012)
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Child psychology, Preschool children -- Psychological aspects, Memory in children | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Language Acquisition | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1048-9223 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 68-70 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/10489223.2019.1624759 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 June 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 May 2020 | ||||||||
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