Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture:: Motion events in English and Turkish
Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture:: Motion events in English and Turkish
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1040
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
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4
通讯作者：
Ishizuka, Tomoko
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作者：
Ozurek, Ash;Kita, Sotaro;Ishizuka, Tomoko
成年人的方式表达的方式和路径组件的运动事件的不同类型的不同语言的语音和cospeech手势，表明语言的特异性事件编码的影响手势。作者追踪了这种多模态跨语言变异在学习土耳其语和英语的儿童中何时以及如何发展，这两种语言在类型上是不同的。他们发现，孩子们从3岁开始学习用特定的语言说话（即，英语使用I从句，土耳其语使用2从句来表达方式和路径）。相比之下，讲英语和土耳其语的儿童在3岁和5岁时的手势看起来相似（即，方式和路径的单独手势），仅在9岁和成年时彼此不同（即，说英语的人使用I手势，但说土耳其语的人使用不同的手势表示方式和路径）。作者认为，这种共同语言手势的发展模式反映了在说话过程中逐渐转向语言特定的表征，并表明仅看语音可能不足以理解语言习得的整个过程。
The way adults express manner and path components of a motion event varies across typologically different languages both in speech and cospeech gestures, showing that language specificity in event encoding influences gesture. The authors tracked when and how this multimodal cross-linguistic variation develops in children learning Turkish and English, 2 typologically distinct languages. They found that children learn to speak in language-specific ways from age 3 onward (i.e., English speakers used I clause and Turkish speakers used 2 clauses to express manner and path). In contrast, English- and Turkish-speaking children's gestures looked similar at ages 3 and 5 (i.e., separate gestures for manner and path), differing from each other only at age 9 and in adulthood (i.e., English speakers used I gesture, but Turkish speakers used separate gestures for manner and path). The authors argue that this pattern of the development of cospeech gestures reflects a gradual shift to language-specific representations during speaking and shows that looking at speech alone may not be sufficient to understand the full process of language acquisition.