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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Based on the linguistic analysis
    of game explanations and retellings, the paper’s goal is to investigate the relation
    of preschool children’s situated discourse competence and iconic gestures in different
    communicative genres, focussing on reinforcing and supplementary speech-gesture-combinations.
    To this end, a method was developed to evaluate discourse competence as a context-sensitive
    and interactively embedded phenomenon. The so-called GLOBE-model was adapted to
    assess discourse competence in relation to interactive scaffolding. The findings
    show clear links between the children’s competence and their parents’ scaffolding.
    We suggest this to be evidence of a fine-tuned interactive support system. The
    results also indicate strong relations between higher discourse competence and
    increased frequency of iconic gestures. This applies in particular to reinforcing
    gestures. The results are interpreted as a confirmation that the speech-gesture
    system undergoes systematic changes during early childhood, and that gesturing
    becomes more iconic – and thus more communicative – when discourse competence
    is growing.</jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Friederike
  full_name: Kern, Friederike
  last_name: Kern
- first_name: Ulrich
  full_name: Boden, Ulrich
  last_name: Boden
- first_name: Anne
  full_name: Nemeth, Anne
  last_name: Nemeth
- first_name: Sofia
  full_name: Koutalidis, Sofia
  last_name: Koutalidis
- first_name: Olga
  full_name: Abramov, Olga
  last_name: Abramov
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Kopp, Stefan
  last_name: Kopp
- first_name: Katharina J.
  full_name: Rohlfing, Katharina J.
  last_name: Rohlfing
citation:
  ama: Kern F, Boden U, Nemeth A, et al. Preschool children’s discourse competence
    in different genres and how it relates to iconic gestures. <i>Journal of Child
    Language</i>. 2024;51(3):656-680. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x">10.1017/s030500092300065x</a>
  apa: Kern, F., Boden, U., Nemeth, A., Koutalidis, S., Abramov, O., Kopp, S., &#38;
    Rohlfing, K. J. (2024). Preschool children’s discourse competence in different
    genres and how it relates to iconic gestures. <i>Journal of Child Language</i>,
    <i>51</i>(3), 656–680. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x">https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Kern_Boden_Nemeth_Koutalidis_Abramov_Kopp_Rohlfing_2024, title={Preschool
    children’s discourse competence in different genres and how it relates to iconic
    gestures}, volume={51}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x">10.1017/s030500092300065x</a>},
    number={3}, journal={Journal of Child Language}, publisher={Cambridge University
    Press (CUP)}, author={Kern, Friederike and Boden, Ulrich and Nemeth, Anne and
    Koutalidis, Sofia and Abramov, Olga and Kopp, Stefan and Rohlfing, Katharina J.},
    year={2024}, pages={656–680} }'
  chicago: 'Kern, Friederike, Ulrich Boden, Anne Nemeth, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov,
    Stefan Kopp, and Katharina J. Rohlfing. “Preschool Children’s Discourse Competence
    in Different Genres and How It Relates to Iconic Gestures.” <i>Journal of Child
    Language</i> 51, no. 3 (2024): 656–80. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x">https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x</a>.'
  ieee: 'F. Kern <i>et al.</i>, “Preschool children’s discourse competence in different
    genres and how it relates to iconic gestures,” <i>Journal of Child Language</i>,
    vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 656–680, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x">10.1017/s030500092300065x</a>.'
  mla: Kern, Friederike, et al. “Preschool Children’s Discourse Competence in Different
    Genres and How It Relates to Iconic Gestures.” <i>Journal of Child Language</i>,
    vol. 51, no. 3, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2024, pp. 656–80, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092300065x">10.1017/s030500092300065x</a>.
  short: F. Kern, U. Boden, A. Nemeth, S. Koutalidis, O. Abramov, S. Kopp, K.J. Rohlfing,
    Journal of Child Language 51 (2024) 656–680.
date_created: 2024-12-07T04:16:50Z
date_updated: 2024-12-07T04:21:12Z
doi: 10.1017/s030500092300065x
intvolume: '        51'
issue: '3'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 656-680
publication: Journal of Child Language
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0305-0009
  - 1469-7602
publication_status: published
publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
status: public
title: Preschool children’s discourse competence in different genres and how it relates
  to iconic gestures
type: journal_article
user_id: '50352'
volume: 51
year: '2024'
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