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Publication details [#53878]

Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Wing Chee So and Özlem Ece Demir. 2010. When speech is ambiguous, gesture steps in: Sensitivity to discourse-pragmatic principles in early childhood. Applied Psycholinguistics 31 (1) : 209–224.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity, L1-acquisition of | early childhood | gesture | person | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This crosslinguistic study confirms that young English and young Chinese speaking children's (speech-) disambiguating gestures are constrained by the discourse-pragmatic principles of person and information status.