PMID: 3772293Aug 1, 1986Paper

Evaluation and integration of speech and pointing gestures during referential understanding

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
L A Thompson, D W Massaro

Abstract

Two experiments investigated the relative influence of speech and pointing gesture information in the interpretation of referential acts. Children averaging 3 and 5 years of age and adults viewed a videotape containing the independent manipulation of speech and gestural forms of reference. A man instructed the subjects to choose a ball or a doll by vocally labeling the referent and/or pointing to it. A synthetic speech continuum between two alternatives was crossed with the pointing gesture in a factorial design. Based on research in other domains, it was predicted that all age groups would utilize gestural information, although both speech and gestures were predicted to influence children less than adults. The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the j...Continue Reading

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