The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language

IF 2.8 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI:10.1002/icd.2552

Işıl Doğan, Demet Özer, Aslı Aktan‐Erciyes, Reyhan Furman, Ö. Ece Demir‐Lira, Şeyda Özçalışkan, Tilbe Göksun

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Abstract

Children comprehend iconic gestures relatively later than deictic gestures. Previous research with English‐learning children indicated that they could comprehend iconic gestures at 26 months, a pattern whose extension to other languages is not yet known. The present study examined Turkish‐learning children's iconic gesture comprehension and its relation to their receptive vocabulary knowledge. Turkish‐learning children between the ages of 22‐ and 30‐month‐olds (N = 92, M = 25.6 months, SD = 1.6; 51 girls) completed a gesture comprehension task in which they were asked to choose the correct picture that matched the experimenter's speech and iconic gestures. They were also administered a standardized receptive vocabulary test. Children's performance in the gesture comprehension task increased with age, which was also related to their receptive vocabulary knowledge. When children were categorized into younger and older age groups based on the median age (i.e., 26 months—the age at which iconic gesture comprehension was present for English‐learning children), only the older group performed at chance level in the task. At the same time, receptive vocabulary was positively related to gesture comprehension for younger but not older children. These findings suggest a shift in iconic gesture comprehension at around 26 months and indicate a possible link between receptive vocabulary knowledge and iconic gesture comprehension, particularly for children younger than 26 months.

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早期图标手势理解与接受语言之间的联系

儿童对图标手势的理解相对晚于对文字手势的理解。以前对学习英语的儿童进行的研究表明，他们在 26 个月大时就能理解图标手势，但这一模式能否推广到其他语言尚不得而知。本研究考察了学习土耳其语的儿童对图标手势的理解能力及其与接受词汇知识的关系。年龄在 22 个月至 30 个月之间的土耳其语学习儿童（92 人，中=25.6 个月，标差=1.6；51 名女孩）完成了一项手势理解任务，要求他们选择与实验者的语音和图标手势相匹配的正确图片。他们还接受了标准化的接受词汇测试。儿童在手势理解任务中的表现随着年龄的增长而提高，这也与他们的接受词汇知识有关。如果根据年龄中位数（即 26 个月--学英语儿童出现图标手势理解能力的年龄）将儿童分为低龄组和高龄组，则只有高龄组儿童在任务中的表现达到了机会水平。与此同时，低龄儿童的接受词汇量与手势理解能力呈正相关，而高龄儿童则不然。这些研究结果表明，图标手势理解能力在 26 个月左右出现了转变，并表明接受词汇知识与图标手势理解能力之间可能存在联系，尤其是对 26 个月以下的儿童而言。

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Infant and Child Development PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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2.90

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Infant and Child Development publishes high quality empirical, theoretical and methodological papers addressing psychological development from the antenatal period through to adolescence. The journal brings together research on: - social and emotional development - perceptual and motor development - cognitive development - language development atypical development (including conduct problems, anxiety and depressive conditions, language impairments, autistic spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders)