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This study assesses how 5-6 and 7-9 year-old-children use gestures (specifically referential and non-referential gestures) together with speech prominence. In this longitudinal investigation we show that already at age 5, children temporally integrate these gestures with speech.
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This page is a summary of: Multimodal Development in Children's Narrative Speech: Evidence for Tight Gesture–Speech Temporal Alignment Patterns as Early as 5 Years Old, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00451.
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