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Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Igualada, Alfonso; Prieto, Pilar – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of information by preschoolers, little is known about the potential beneficial effects of observing beat gestures on the development of children's narrative performance. We…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Nonverbal Communication, Young Children, Observation
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Pérez-Navarro, Jose; Lallier, Marie; Clark, Catherine; Flanagan, Sheila; Goswami, Usha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize the local (utterance-level) temporal regularities of child-directed speech (CDS) that might facilitate phonological development in Spanish, classically termed a syllable-timed language. Method: Eighteen female adults addressed their 4-year-old children versus other adults spontaneously and also…
Descriptors: Spanish, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Language Rhythm