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Download e-book for iPad: Narrative Development in Young Children: Gesture, Imagery, by Elena T. Levy,David McNeill

By Elena T. Levy,David McNeill

ISBN-10: 1107041112

ISBN-13: 9781107041110

As young ones start to use language in early early life, they produce more and more huge devices of coherent speech, together with narrative descriptions of occasions. This booklet examines the method of narrative improvement in children, concentrating on the improvement of 'cohesion' - using speech and gesture to create coherent views on occasions. Surveying early narrative improvement within which gesture performs a vital part, the booklet explores the advance of cohesive, clause-linking units in the course of the interval from age to 3. Illustrated with longitudinal circumstances stories, the booklet examines the crib-talk of two-year-old Emily and compares it to the discourse styles of storybooks and nursery rhymes, and to her father's pre-bedtime workouts. In a moment case examine, the authors hint the altering relationships among speech and gesture within the spontaneous narratives of two-year-old Ella. This ebook could be worthwhile to scholars and researchers in language acquisition, developmental psychology and gesture studies.

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