TY - BOOK ID - 85469667 TI - Narrative development in young children : gesture, imagery, and cohesion AU - Levy, Elena Terry AU - McNeill, David PY - 2015 SN - 1316322335 1316308952 1107683343 1316329011 1316332357 1316325679 1316318974 1139644556 1107041112 1316315630 1316288226 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Children--Language. KW - Communicative competence in children. KW - Gesture. KW - Language acquisition. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. KW - Communicative competence in children KW - Children KW - Language acquisition KW - Gesture KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Mudra KW - Acting KW - Body language KW - Elocution KW - Movement (Acting) KW - Oratory KW - Sign language KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Language KW - Acquisition KW - Language. KW - Vocabulary UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469667 AB - As children begin to use language in early childhood, they produce increasingly large units of coherent speech, including narrative descriptions of events. This book examines the process of narrative development in young children, focusing on the development of 'cohesion' - the use of speech and gesture to create coherent perspectives on events. Surveying early narrative development in which gesture plays an integral part, the book explores the development of cohesive, clause-linking devices during the period from age two to three. Illustrated with longitudinal cases studies, the book examines the crib-talk of two-year-old Emily and compares it to the discourse patterns of storybooks and nursery rhymes, and to her father's pre-bedtime routines. In a second case study, the authors trace the changing relationships between speech and gesture in the spontaneous narratives of two-year-old Ella. This book will be invaluable to students and researchers in language acquisition, developmental psychology and gesture studies. ER -