Andrea Junyent
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Junyent is involved.
Articles
2023 Pragmatic development in Peruvian children: Modality and lexical development between 8 and 15 months of age Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 377–411 | Article
This study examines how 8- to 15-month-old Peruvian children (N = 18) express pragmatic functions in terms of the modality and referential-specificity level of each communicative behaviour. Results show that pragmatic functions were expressed mainly via the vocal modality, primarily with… read more
2021 Gesture development in Peruvianchildren and its relationship with vocalizations and vocabulary Gesture 20:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
We examine gestural development, and correlations between gesture types, vocalizations and vocabulary at ages 8 to 15 months, employing data from MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Peruvian Spanish, in the first such study with Peruvian children. Results show (1)… read more
How is multimodality used in early communication? Relationships with pragmatic function, referential-specificity level, and grammar Gesture: Online-First Articles | Article
This study assessed if early multimodality increasingly involves more mature productions, in a pragmatic (i.e., declaratives) and referential (i.e., words) sense, and if it is associated with grammar, which would point to multimodality’s role in language development. Data is derived from the… read more