Motamedi, Yasamin and Murgiano, Margherita and Grzyb, Beata and Gu, Yan and Kewenig, Viktor and Brieke, Ricarda and Donnellan, Ed and Marshall, Chloe and Wonnacott, Elizabeth and Perniss, Pamela and Vigliocco, Gabriella (2024) Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication. Child Development, 95 (5). pp. 1539-1557. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14099
Motamedi, Yasamin and Murgiano, Margherita and Grzyb, Beata and Gu, Yan and Kewenig, Viktor and Brieke, Ricarda and Donnellan, Ed and Marshall, Chloe and Wonnacott, Elizabeth and Perniss, Pamela and Vigliocco, Gabriella (2024) Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication. Child Development, 95 (5). pp. 1539-1557. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14099
Motamedi, Yasamin and Murgiano, Margherita and Grzyb, Beata and Gu, Yan and Kewenig, Viktor and Brieke, Ricarda and Donnellan, Ed and Marshall, Chloe and Wonnacott, Elizabeth and Perniss, Pamela and Vigliocco, Gabriella (2024) Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication. Child Development, 95 (5). pp. 1539-1557. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14099
Abstract
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically available. One possibility is that iconic cues that imagistically evoke properties of absent referents support learning when referents are displaced. In an audio‐visual corpus of caregiver–child dyads, English‐speaking caregivers interacted with their children (N = 71, 24–58 months) in contexts in which the objects talked about were either familiar or unfamiliar to the child, and either physically present or displaced. The analysis of the range of vocal, manual, and looking behaviors caregivers produced suggests that caregivers used iconic cues especially in displaced contexts and for unfamiliar objects, using other cues when objects were present.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Humans; Communication; Language Development; Cues; Child, Preschool; Female; Male |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2024 14:09 |
Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2024 00:27 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38389 |
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