Introducing infants to referential events: a development study of material ostensive marking in French  

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Colas, Annie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 26 no. 1 (Feb. 1999), page 113-132.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/26 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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It is well known that mothers give their infants lessons in conversational competence from an early age. This study considered how maternal gestures and prosody contribute to this developing competence. It examines how mothers use ostensive marking to point out common references at different stages of development. The corpus consisted of longitudinal observations of four mother-infant dyads during free play (infants aged 0;4 to I; I), at three stages of sensorimotor development (III, IV and V). Four dimensions of ostensive marking were considered: (I) the span of the marked utterance (holistic vs. local); (2) the communication channel used (gestural vs. prosodic); (3) the type of gestural marker (oriented, iconic, conventional, beats); and (4) the type of prosodic marker (emphasis, prosodic cliche, reinforced nuclear stress, focal accent). Although there was no clear change in the patterns of specific types of gestural or prosodic markers, the results showed that mothers adapt their gestures to the infant's processing level. Between stages III and V, they move from holistic to local and from gestural to prosodic marking. Stage IV appears to be an excellent period for observing the transition.

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