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Learning to talk and gesture about motion in French

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This study explores how French adults and children aged four and six years talk and gesture about voluntary motion, examining (1) how they encode path and manner in speech, (2) how they encode this information in accompanying gestures; and (3) whether gestures are co-expressive with speech or express other information. When path and manner are equally relevant, children’s and adults’ speech and gestures both focus on path, rather than on manner. Moreover, gestures are predominantly co-expressive with speech at all ages. However, when they are non-redundant, adults tend to gesture about path while talking about manner, whereas children gesture about both path and manner while talking about path. The discussion highlights implications for our understanding of speakers’ representations and their development.

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

200-236

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

First Language

Volym

28

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • representation of motion
  • motion event
  • path
  • manner
  • language development
  • French
  • gestures

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0142-7237