Gestures convey substantive information about a child's thoughts to ordinary listeners
Gestures convey substantive information about a child's thoughts to ordinary listeners
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-7687.00056
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Sandhofer, Catherine Momeni
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作者：
Goldin-Meadow, Susan;Sandhofer, Catherine Momeni
事实证明，在交流环境中自发出现的手势可以洞察孩子的想法。当然，只有当沟通伙伴能够理解手势时，手势才能传达孩子的想法。成人被要求观察一系列“现场”参与一系列保护任务的儿童，并在执行任务时自发地做出手势。成年人能够从孩子们的手势中收集到实质性信息，而这些信息在他们的言语中是找不到的。然而，“手势阅读”确实是有代价的——如果手势传达的信息与语音不同，就会妨碍听者识别语音信息的能力。因此，普通听众可以而且确实从孩子的手势中提取信息，甚至是未经编辑和转瞬即逝的手势。
The gestures that spontaneously occur in communicative contexts have been shown to offer in sight into a child's thoughts. The information gesture conveys about what is on a child's mind will,of course,only be accessible to a communication partner if that partner can interpret gesture. Adults were asked to observe as series of children who participated 'live' in a set of conservation tasks and gestured spontaneously while performing the tasks. Adults were able to glean substantive information from the children's gestures,information that was not found any where in their speech. 'Gesture-reading' did,however,have a cost - if gesture conveyed different information from speech,it hindered the listener's ability to identify the message in speech. Thus,ordinary listeners can and do extract information from a child's gestures,even gestures that are unedited and fleeting.