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Goksun, Tilbe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Cognitive Development, 2010
Upon witnessing a causal event, do children's gestures encode causal knowledge that (a) does not appear in their linguistic descriptions or (b) conveys the same information as their sentential expressions? The former use of gesture is considered supplementary; the latter is considered reinforcing. Sixty-four English-speaking children aged 2.5-5…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Nonverbal Communication, Preschool Children, Speech Communication