Abstract
This inquiry examined strategies used by young children when receiver feedback indicated that their gestural communicative attempts were not understood. The children were grouped according to their vocabulary sizes and number of coding rules for two-word utterances. The results indicated that the children, although capable of semantically equivalent verbal behavior, tended to persist in the use of a gesture when experiencing communicative failure. The gestural persistance was not found to be related to the children's lexical or syntactic abilities. It was concluded that the children may not have realized that a verbal behavior can serve as a replacement or an adjunct to a gestural communication.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 15-27 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Applied Psycholinguistics |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1982 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- General Psychology