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How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang

Mazara, Jekaterina; Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2022). How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang. In: The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada, 27 July 2022 - 30 July 2022. UC Merced, 3696-3702.

Abstract

Learning to establish joint reference is an important milestone of communicative and linguistic development. Pointing is one of the first entry points into this process, since gestures often precede verbal communication. During early development, as well as later language use, pointing and linguistic utterances interact in many ways, complementing each other. However, little is known about the development of this relationship during development. In this paper, we focus on the development of the co-occurrence of finger pointing and accompanying utterances in two different cultures: Russia and Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Eastern Nepal). We show that despite the differences in environment, the development of finger pointing and accompanying language use show substantial similarities. Early on, a larger proportion of points is not accompanied by language. As the children's linguistic abilities develop, children first use language to specify what is being pointed at, and later elaborate on some aspect of the referent.

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Comparative Language Science
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
Special Collections > NCCR Evolving Language
Special Collections > Centers of Competence > Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Dewey Decimal Classification:490 Other languages
890 Other literatures
410 Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:child development; child language development; gestural development; pointing; finger points; cross-linguistic, cross-cultural; longitudinal corpus study
Language:English
Event End Date:30 July 2022
Deposited On:24 Jan 2023 07:51
Last Modified:29 Jun 2023 07:01
Publisher:UC Merced
Series Name:Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Number:44
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Official URL. An embargo period may apply.
Official URL:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/62r4g9j9
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