Is gesture-speech mismatch a general index of transitional knowledge?
dc.contributor.author | Perry, Michelle | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Church, R. Breckinridge | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Goldin-Meadow, Susan | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-10T15:23:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-10T15:23:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Perry, Michelle, Church, R. Breckinridge, Goldin-Meadow, Susan (1992)."Is gesture-speech mismatch a general index of transitional knowledge?." Cognitive Development 7(1): 109-122. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/30300> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W47-4C3TVYS-6/2/e3a1ab6aa1ff1f7d7d940e98239d5f49 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/30300 | |
dc.description.abstract | When asked to explain their beliefs about a concept, some children produce gestures that convey different information from the information conveyed in their speech (i.e., gesture-speech mismatches). Moreover, it is precisely the children who produce a large proportion of gesture-speech mismatches in their explanations of a concept who are particularly "ready" to benefit from instruction in that concept, and thus may be considered to be in a transitional state with respect to the concept. Church and Goldin-Meadow (1986) and Perry, Church and Goldin-Meadow (1988) studied this phenomenon with respect to two different concepts at two different ages and found that gesture-speech mismatch reliability predicts readiness to learn in both domains. In an attempt to test further the generality of gesture-speech mismatch as an index of transitional knowledge, Stone, Webb, and Mahootian (1991) explored this phenomenon in a group of 15-year-olds working on a problem-solving task. On this task, however, gesture-speech mismatch was not found to predict transitional knowledge. We present here a theoretical framework, which makes it clear why we expect gesture-speech mismatch to be a general index of transitional knowledge, and then use this framework to motivate our methodological practices for establishing gesture-speech mismatch as a predictor of transitional knowledge. Finally, we present evidence suggesting that, if these practices had been used by Stone et al., they too would have found that gesture-speech mismatch predicts transitional knowledge. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Is gesture-speech mismatch a general index of transitional knowledge? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Northeastern Illinois University, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | The University of Chicago, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30300/1/0000702.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-2014(92)90007-E | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Cognitive Development | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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