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Vocabulary, syntax, and narrative development in typically developing children and children with early unilateral brain injury: Early parental talk about the there-and-then matters
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A tale of two hands: Children's early gesture use in narrative production predicts later narrative structure in speech
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Narrative Processing in Typically Developing Children and Children with Early Unilateral Brain Injury: Seeing Gesture Matters
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Turkish- and English-speaking children display sensitivity to perceptual context in the referring expressions they produce in speech and gesture
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Narrative Skill in Children with Early Unilateral Brain Injury: A Possible Limit to Functional Plasticity
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When speech is ambiguous gesture steps in: Sensitivity to discourse-pragmatic principles in early childhood
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Young children produce gestures to disambiguate arguments. This study explores whether the gestures they produce are constrained by discourse-pragmatic principles: person and information status. We ask whether children use gesture more often to indicate the referents that have to be specified, i.e., 3rd person and new referents, than the referents that do not have to be specified, i.e., 1st/2nd person and given referents. Chinese- and English-speaking children were videotaped while interacting spontaneously with adults, and their speech and gestures were coded for referential expressions. We found that both groups of children tended to use nouns when indicating 3rd person and new referents but pronouns or null arguments when indicating 1st/2nd person and given referents. They also produced gestures more often when indicating 3rd person and new referents, particularly when those referents were ambiguously conveyed by less explicit referring expressions (pronouns, null arguments). Thus Chinese- and English-speaking children show sensitivity to discourse-pragmatic principles not only in speech but also in gesture.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20401173 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716409990221 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854417
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