Multimodal constructions in children : is the headshake part of language?
(2014) In Gesture 14(2). p.141-170- Abstract
- Swedish children’s use of the headshake from 18 to 30 months shows a developmental progression from rote-learned coordination with speech to increasingly more flexible and productive coordination with speech. To deal with these observations, I introduce the concept of multimodal constructions in order to extend usage-based approaches to language learning and construction grammar into the kinetic domain. These ideas have consequences for the (meta-)theoretical question of whether gesture can be said to be part of language or not. I suggest that some speech-coordinated gestures, including the headshake, can be considered part of language, also in the traditional sense of language as a conventionalized system.
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- author
- Andrén, Mats LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- development, language, gesture, construction grammar, semiotics
- in
- Gesture
- volume
- 14
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 141 - 170
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- external identifiers
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- wos:000365043200002
- scopus:84943244642
- ISSN
- 1568-1475
- DOI
- 10.1075/gest.14.2.02and
- project
- Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (RJ)
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 7cc4820c-11fc-495e-ad2a-4833c83cb270 (old id 4255754)
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title = {{Multimodal constructions in children : is the headshake part of language?}},
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