Young preschoolers' ability to reference story characters: the contribution of gestures and character speech  

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O'Neill, Daniela K. ; Holmes, Amanda V.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 22 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 73-103.
Fulltext: First Language-2002-O'Neill-73-103.pdf (1.6MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The ability of 3- and 4-year-olds (N=48) ability to (re)introduce main characters when narrating a picture-book was assessed, taking into account not only their use of nominal forms, but also their use of deictic point gestures and character speech. Using these paralinguistic means, 3-year-olds clarified a significantly larger proportion (43%) of their initially unclear (re)introductions than 4-year-olds did (21%), and attained the same final level of clarity. Thus, 3- and 4-year-olds appear similarly sensitive to the need to specify, unambiguoslly, referents in cases of (re)introduction, differing only in their linguistic ability to do so. These results support the view that gesture and affect form wholly integrated systems with speech, conveying nonredundant information.

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