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Developmental change of discourse cohesion in speech and gestures among Japanese elementary school children

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Sekine, K., & Furuyama, N. (2010). Developmental change of discourse cohesion in speech and gestures among Japanese elementary school children. Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata, 10(3), 97-116. doi:10.1400/152613.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-0982-D
Abstract
This study investigates the development of bi-modal reference maintenance by focusing on how Japanese elementary school children introduce and track animate referents in their narratives. Sixty elementary school children participated in this study, 10 from each school year (from 7 to 12 years of age). They were instructed to remember a cartoon and retell the story to their parents. We found that although there were no differences in the speech indices among the different ages, the average scores for the gesture indices of the 12-year-olds were higher than those of the other age groups. In particular, the amount of referential gestures radically increased at 12, and these children tended to use referential gestures not only for tracking referents but also for introducing characters. These results indicate that the ability to maintain a reference to create coherent narratives increases at about age 12.