Multimodal Language in Child-Directed Versus Adult-Directed Speech

dc.authoridOzer, Demet/0000-0003-3230-2874
dc.authoridAKTAN-ERCIYES, ASLI/0000-0002-6531-6140
dc.contributor.authorKandemir, Songul
dc.contributor.authorOzer, Demet
dc.contributor.authorAktan-Erciyes, Asli
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:12:31Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:12:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.department-temp[Kandemir, Songul; Ozer, Demet; Aktan-Erciyes, Asli] Kadir Has Univ, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Aktan-Erciyes, Asli] Kadir Has Univ, TR-34083 Istanbul, Turkiyeen_US
dc.description.abstractSpeakers design their multimodal communication according to the needs and knowledge of their interlocutors, phenomenon known as audience design. We use more sophisticated language (e.g., longer sentences with complex grammatical forms) when communicating with adults compared with children. This study investigates how speech and co-speech gestures change in adult-directed speech (ADS) versus child-directed speech (CDS) for three different tasks. Overall, 66 adult participants (M-age = 21.05, 60 female) completed three different tasks (story-reading, storytelling and address description) and they were instructed to pretend to communicate with a child (CDS) or an adult (ADS). We hypothesised that participants would use more complex language, more beat gestures, and less iconic gestures in the ADS compared with the CDS. Results showed that, for CDS, participants used more iconic gestures in the story-reading task and storytelling task compared with ADS. However, participants used more beat gestures in the storytelling task for ADS than CDS. In addition, language complexity did not differ across conditions. Our findings indicate that how speakers employ different types of gestures (iconic vs beat) according to the addressee's needs and across different tasks. Speakers might prefer to use more iconic gestures with children than adults. Results are discussed according to audience design theory.en_US
dc.identifier.citation0
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/17470218231188832en_US
dc.identifier.issn1747-0218
dc.identifier.issn1747-0226
dc.identifier.pmid37417537en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231188832
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5468
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001039291500001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.institutionauthorÖzer, Demet
dc.khas20231019-WoSen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectConversational Hand GesturesEn_Us
dc.subjectRecipient DesignEn_Us
dc.subjectOlder-AdultsEn_Us
dc.subjectCommunicationEn_Us
dc.subjectMothereseEn_Us
dc.subjectSpeakersEn_Us
dc.subjectRecallEn_Us
dc.subjectPreferenceEn_Us
dc.subjectSpeakingEn_Us
dc.subjectYoungerEn_Us
dc.subjectConversational Hand Gestures
dc.subjectRecipient Design
dc.subjectOlder-Adults
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectMotherese
dc.subjectSpeakers
dc.subjectRecall
dc.subjectAudience designen_US
dc.subjectPreference
dc.subjectmultimodal languageen_US
dc.subjectSpeaking
dc.subjectadult-directed speechen_US
dc.subjectYounger
dc.subjectchild-directed speechen_US
dc.titleMultimodal Language in Child-Directed Versus Adult-Directed Speechen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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