Co-speech gesture as input in verb learning
Co-speech gesture as input in verb learning
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00735.x
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Kam, Carla L. Hudson
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作者：
Goodrich, Whitney;Kam, Carla L. Hudson
人们在说话时会做很多手势，研究表明，听者可以理解手势中包含的信息。目前的研究考察了学习者是否也可以使用联合言语手势来指导语言学习。具体地说，我们考察了听者是否可以使用一个标志性手势中包含的信息来为一个新的动词形式赋予意义。两个实验表明，在没有其他信息来源的情况下，成人和2、3、4岁的儿童可以从手势中推断出新奇的不及物动词的意思。这一发现支持了手势可能是语言学习者可用的输入来源的观点。
People gesture a great deal when speaking, and research has shown that listeners can interpret the information contained in gesture. The current research examines whether learners can also use co-speech gesture to inform language learning. Specifically, we examine whether listeners can use information contained in an iconic gesture to assign meaning to a novel verb form. Two experiments demonstrate that adults and 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children can infer the meaning of novel intransitive verbs from gestures when no other source of information is present. The findings support the idea that gesture might be a source of input available to language learners.