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Sensitivity to Information Status in Discourse: Gesture Precedes Speech in Unbalanced Bilinguals
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So, Wing-Chee; Lim, Jia-Yi; Tan, Seok-Hui – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This paper explores whether English-Mandarin bilingual children have mastered discourse skills and whether they show sensitivity to the discourse principle of information status of referents in their speech and gestures. We compare the speech and gestures produced by bilingual children to those produced by English- and Mandarin-speaking…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Nonverbal Communication, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)