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Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives

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This chapter reports on a cross-linguistic developmental study comparing speech and gesture produced in narratives by adults and children speaking either French (a non-pro-drop Romance language) or Zulu (a pro-drop Bantu language). We asked 72 participants (French: 12 adults and 24 children; Zulu: 12 adults and 24 children) to narrate a short silent cartoon. Zulu narratives were more detailed and contained fewer comments than the French. Zulu-speaking participants produced more representational and fewer pragmatic gestures than their French-speaking counterparts. Language differences do not explain this result. Rather, the findings support the gesture-speech co-expressivity framework and suggest an impact of literacy practice norms on multimodal narrative performance during later language acquisition.

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hal-02049293 , version 1 (26-02-2019)

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Jean-Marc Colletta, Ramona N. Kunene-Nicolas. Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives. Hickmann, Maya and Veneziano, E. and Jisa, Harriet. TILAR, 22 : Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition. Languages, contexts, and learners, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.140--159, 2018. ⟨hal-02049293⟩

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