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The Time is at Hand : Literacy Predicts Changes in Children’s Gestures About Time
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research ( IF 1.315 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 , DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09782-3
Lauren Stites 1, 2 , Şeyda Özçalışkan 1
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The metaphorical motion of time can be expressed in gesture along either a sagittal axis—with the future ahead and past behind the speaker, or a lateral axis—with the past to the left and future to the right of the speaker (Casasanto & Jasmin in CL 23(4): 643–674, 2012). Adult English speakers, when gesturing about time, show a preference for lateral gestures with left-to-right directionality, consistent with the directionality of the reading-writing system in English (Casasanto & Jasmin in CL 23(4): 643–674, 2012). In this study, we asked how early children would show a preference for left-to-right lateral gestures and whether literacy skills would predict the production of such gestures. Our findings showed developmental changes in both the orientation and directionality of children’s gestures about time. Children increased their production of left-to-right lateral gestures over time, with a shift around ages 7–8. More importantly, literacy predicted children’s production of such lateral gestures. Overall, these results suggest that the orientation and directionality of children’s metaphorical gestures about time follow a developmental pattern that is largely influenced by changes in literacy.



中文翻译:

时间近了:识字预测儿童关于时间的手势变化

时间的隐喻运动可以用沿矢状轴的手势来表达——未来在说话者的前面,过去在说话者的后面,或者是一个横轴——过去在左边,未来在右边(Casasanto & Jasmin in CL 23(4): 643–674, 2012)。成人说英语的人在做手势时,更喜欢从左到右方向性的横向手势,这与英语读写系统的方向性一致(Casasanto & Jasmin in CL 23(4): 643–674, 2012)。在这项研究中,我们询问了早期儿童如何表现出对从左到右横向手势的偏好,以及读写技能是否会预测此类手势的产生。我们的研究结果显示了儿童手势的方向性和方向性的发展变化。随着时间的推移,儿童会增加从左到右的横向手势,在 7-8 岁左右发生转变。更重要的是,识字能预测儿童产生这种横向手势。总体而言,这些结果表明,儿童关于时间的隐喻手势的方向和方向性遵循很大程度上受识字变化影响的发展模式。

更新日期:2021-05-07
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