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The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age

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2025
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Wolfer, P., Baumeister, F., Daum, M., Dimitrova, N., Leone, G., Naigles, L. R., Solaimani, E., & Durrleman, S. (2025). The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e32. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716425100192

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Previous work had shown that multilingual preschool children are better at interpreting deictic gestures than their monolingual peers. The present study examines whether this multilingual effect persists beyond preschool age and whether it extends to iconic (i.e., representing the referent) and conventional (i.e., holding an arbitrary meaning) gestures. A total of N = 105 children (aged 3 to 8), varying in their balance of exposure to more than one language since birth, completed a gamified gesture comprehension task. The three gestur

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  • Wolfer, Pauline
  • Baumeister, Franziska
  • Dimitrova, Nevena
  • Leone, Giada
  • Naigles, Letitia R.
  • Solaimani, Ehsan
  • Durrleman, Stephanie

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46

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e32

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2025-10-17

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2026-01-19

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Cambridge University Press

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0142-7164

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Wolfer, P., Baumeister, F., Daum, M., Dimitrova, N., Leone, G., Naigles, L. R., Solaimani, E., & Durrleman, S. (2025). The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e32. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716425100192

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