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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mertens, Ulrich
• Abramov, Olga
• Kern, Friederike
• Kopp, Stefan
• Nemeth, Anne
• Rohlfing, Katharina J

Titel

Children's viewpoint: iconic co-speech gestures and their relation to linguistic structure across two communicative genres

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the 6th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference, Seite 62-67

Ort / Verlag

Paderborn : Universitätsbibliothek

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• eng: In this study, two different communicative genres (explanation vs. rport) were elicited in 38German preschool children at the age of 4 years. In one part of the study, explanations of agame were elicited from the child. The game involved spatial movements and figures withvarious geometrical shapes. In a subsequent part, children reported about a puppet and its oddbehaviour to their caregiver. We examined childrens viewpoint in iconic co-speech gesturesand related it to the childrens event structures and linguistic structures that differed in termsof transitivity. Our findings suggest that children do not use viewpoints in a unified waywhich had been reported from studies with adults. In contrast, our results indicate a greatvariability in the ways children use viewpoint in iconic co-speech gesture. We found thatdifferent communicative genres (explanation vs. report) evoke different viewpoints in gesture,due to their different event structure and linguistic structure. During the genre “explanation”,O-VPT gestures occurred more frequently with intransitive utterances, whereas during thegenre “report”, C-VPT gestures occurred more frequently with transitive utterances. Moreover,neither of the events within the communicative genres exclusively evoked one specificviewpoint.