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Todisco, Emanuela, Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, Collier, Jacqueline and Coventry, Kenny 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2591-7723
(2021)
The temporal dynamics of deictic communication.
First Language, 41 (2).
pp. 154-178.
ISSN 0142-7237
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Abstract
Deixis – a fundamental part of communication – involves combinations of speech, gesture and eye-gaze, yet little is known about the temporal dynamics of this coordination. The authors analysed eye-gaze, pointing gestures and verbal productions in 514 deictic episodes during triadic, semi-naturalistic, book-reading sessions performed by Italian children (1;08–2;07) and their caregivers. Results show three new findings. First, deictic communication is overwhelmingly preceded and accompanied by shared attention (of consistent duration) on an object, and only sometimes by disjoint attention. Second, children are synchronously multimodal (conveying information via speech, pointing gesture and eye-gaze) in their deictic communications. Third, the form of deictic communication used is not related to the complexity of the linguistic structures of the sample. Deictic communication is remarkably consistent in children ranging from approximately 1;08 to 2;07 years of age.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | caregiver book-reading,deixis,multimodality,spatial language acquisition,eyegaze interaction,psychology(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2020 23:57 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 06:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76399 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0142723720936789 |
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