Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty

This study investigates 3- to 5-year-old children’s sensitivity to lexical, intonational, and gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on children’s understanding of speaker certainty and uncertainty across languages have focused on the comprehension of...

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Autores: Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-, Hübscher, Iris, Esteve-Gibert, Núria, Igualada Pérez, Alfonso
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
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Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723716673953
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Intonation
Gesture
Uncertainty
Prosodic development
Pragmatic development
Language acquisition
Belief states
Epistemic stance
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spelling Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertaintyPrieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-Hübscher, IrisEsteve-Gibert, NúriaIgualada Pérez, AlfonsoIntonationGestureUncertaintyProsodic developmentPragmatic developmentLanguage acquisitionBelief statesEpistemic stanceThis study investigates 3- to 5-year-old children’s sensitivity to lexical, intonational, and gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on children’s understanding of speaker certainty and uncertainty across languages have focused on the comprehension of lexical markers, and little is known about the potential facilitation effects of intonational and gestural features in this process. A total of 102 3- to 5-year-old Catalan-speaking children participated in a comprehension task which involved the detection of uncertainty in materials that combined lexical, intonational, and gestural markers. In a between-subjects design, the children were either administered the lexical condition (where they were exposed to lexical and gestural cues to uncertainty) or the intonation condition (where they were exposed to intonational and gestural cues to uncertainty. Within each condition, three different presentation formats were used (audio-only, visual-only and audio-visual) in a within-subjects design. Our results indicated that all the children performed better overall when they had gestural cues present. Furthermore, in comparison with the older group, the younger group was more sensitive to intonational marking of speaker uncertainty than to lexical marking. This evidence suggests that the intonational and gestural features of communicative interactions may act as bootstrapping mechanisms in early pragmatic development.This research has been funded by a grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2015-66533 BFU2012-31995 “Intonational and gestural meaning in language”), and by a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR-925) to the Prosodic Studies Group.SAGE Publications201820182016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/35780http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723716673953reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésFirst Lang. 2017 Feb 1;37(1):24-41. DOI: 10.1177/0142723716673953info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2015-66533© The final definitive version of this paper has been published in First Language, 37/1, February/2017 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/357802026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
title Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
spellingShingle Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
Intonation
Gesture
Uncertainty
Prosodic development
Pragmatic development
Language acquisition
Belief states
Epistemic stance
title_short Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
title_full Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
title_fullStr Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
title_full_unstemmed Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
title_sort Intonation and gesture as bootstrapping devices in speaker uncertainty
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
Hübscher, Iris
Esteve-Gibert, Núria
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso
author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
author_facet Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
Hübscher, Iris
Esteve-Gibert, Núria
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso
author_role author
author2 Hübscher, Iris
Esteve-Gibert, Núria
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Intonation
Gesture
Uncertainty
Prosodic development
Pragmatic development
Language acquisition
Belief states
Epistemic stance
topic Intonation
Gesture
Uncertainty
Prosodic development
Pragmatic development
Language acquisition
Belief states
Epistemic stance
description This study investigates 3- to 5-year-old children’s sensitivity to lexical, intonational, and gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on children’s understanding of speaker certainty and uncertainty across languages have focused on the comprehension of lexical markers, and little is known about the potential facilitation effects of intonational and gestural features in this process. A total of 102 3- to 5-year-old Catalan-speaking children participated in a comprehension task which involved the detection of uncertainty in materials that combined lexical, intonational, and gestural markers. In a between-subjects design, the children were either administered the lexical condition (where they were exposed to lexical and gestural cues to uncertainty) or the intonation condition (where they were exposed to intonational and gestural cues to uncertainty. Within each condition, three different presentation formats were used (audio-only, visual-only and audio-visual) in a within-subjects design. Our results indicated that all the children performed better overall when they had gestural cues present. Furthermore, in comparison with the older group, the younger group was more sensitive to intonational marking of speaker uncertainty than to lexical marking. This evidence suggests that the intonational and gestural features of communicative interactions may act as bootstrapping mechanisms in early pragmatic development.
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