TY  - JOUR
AB  - In this study, two different communicative genres (explanation vs. rport) were elicited in 38German preschool children at the age of 4 years. In one part of the study, explanations of agame were elicited from the child. The game involved spatial movements and figures withvarious geometrical shapes. In a subsequent part, children reported about a puppet and its oddbehaviour to their caregiver. We examined childrens viewpoint in iconic co-speech gesturesand related it to the childrens event structures and linguistic structures that differed in termsof transitivity. Our findings suggest that children do not use viewpoints in a unified waywhich had been reported from studies with adults. In contrast, our results indicate a greatvariability in the ways children use viewpoint in iconic co-speech gesture. We found thatdifferent communicative genres (explanation vs. report) evoke different viewpoints in gesture,due to their different event structure and linguistic structure. During the genre “explanation”,O-VPT gestures occurred more frequently with intransitive utterances, whereas during thegenre “report”, C-VPT gestures occurred more frequently with transitive utterances. Moreover,neither of the events within the communicative genres exclusively evoked one specificviewpoint.
AU  - Mertens, Ulrich
AU  - Abramov, Olga
AU  - Kern, Friederike
AU  - Kopp, Stefan
AU  - Nemeth, Anne
AU  - Rohlfing, Katharina J.
DA  - 2019
DO  - 10.17619/UNIPB/1-813
PB  - Universitätsbibliothek
DP  - Universität Paderborn
LA  - eng
M2  - 62
PY  - 2019
SP  - 62-67
T2  - Proceedings of the 6th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference
TI  - Children's viewpoint: iconic co-speech gestures and their relation to linguistic structure across two communicative genres
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:466:2-35715
Y2  - 2025-07-11T02:41:47
ER  -