Yes or no? How young French children combine gestures and speech to agree and refuse

The aim of the study presented here was to examine variations in the forms and functions of agreement and refusal messages – which can be solely gestural, solely verbal, or combined gestural and verbal – by thirty children aged 1;4, 2;0, and 3;0 (ten in each age group) observed at home during an int...

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Published in:Journal of child language 2005-11, Vol.32 (4), p.911-924
Main Author: GUIDETTI, MICHÈLE
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Agreements
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Child Language
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Communication
Communication (Thought Transfer)
Developmental psychology
Female
French language
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gestures
Humans
Infant
Language disorders
Linguistics
Male
Mother-Child Relations
Newborn. Infant
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reproducibility of Results
Semiotics
Speech Acts
Videotape Recording
Young Children
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Summary:The aim of the study presented here was to examine variations in the forms and functions of agreement and refusal messages – which can be solely gestural, solely verbal, or combined gestural and verbal – by thirty children aged 1;4, 2;0, and 3;0 (ten in each age group) observed at home during an interaction with their mother. The results showed that even though verbal forms were the predominant ones as a whole, gestural forms were carried over into the linguistic period, and for the youngest children, constituted the sole means of agreeing and refusing. They also showed that the most frequently expressed function was assertion.
ISSN:0305-0009
1469-7602
DOI:10.1017/S0305000905007038