What types of gestures are used by the participants (e.g. iconic, deictic)?

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Overview:
In this assignment, you will observe a series of videos that show children of different ages and adults as they retell what happened in a cartoon they watched to a research assistant who sits nearby. Although the intent of the original research study by Kita & zyrek (2003) was to study different kinds of gestural communication, the videos also show the children and adults communicating using other social communication tools (e.g., speech, co-ordinated eye gaze, prosody, etc.). You will be identifying these different kinds of social communication in the videos you observe and how this social communication changes over the different age ranges.

Review this Study:
zyrek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. (2008). Development of Cross-Linguistic Variation in Speech and Gesture: Motion Events in English and Turkish. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 1040-1054.

This dataset “investigated how Manner and Path of motion events are expressed in speech and gesture. The participants were native speakers of English and Turkish. There were four age groups in each language: 3, 5, and 9 year olds, and adults. The participants were shown animated cartoons, and retold the story to a native speaker listener. There are 10 video clips depicting motion events involving simultaneous manner and path and two practice clips that resembled the main clips (Ozyurek, Kita, & Allen, 2001). The narration for each cartoon/clip was captured as a separate file. There are 10 files from each participant, and there are twenty participants in each of the 12 language-age groups for a total of 2400 small files.” (Childes website)

To find the files:

USE THIS LINK:
https://childes.talkbank.org/browser/index.php?url=XLing/MDT/english/

You will find a series of video clips and transcriptions, that are divided based on the age of the participants:

e3 = 3 year olds
e5 = 5 year olds
e9 = 9 year olds
ea = adults

The code for each video clip in the media file is: The first letter of the file name indicates the language (e = English). Next the number indicates the age group (3 = years old, 5 = 5 years old, 9 = 9 years old and a = adult). Then comes the participant ID, gender, then four letters for each of the ten cartoons.

Instructions:
1. FIRST READ zyrek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. (2008). Development of Cross-Linguistic Variation in Speech and Gesture: Motion Events in English and Turkish. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 1040-1054.

2. SELECT 4 VIDEOS that represent individuals at 4 different ages (3, 5, 9 years and adults = one video per age group) and 2 genders (= 2 boys-2 girls or 1-3) . Observe the types of social communication tools you see in place for individuals of different ages. You will have to focus on gesture and extralinguistic tools that individuals are using at different ages.

3. Then proceed to the TRANSCRIPTION of the videos – these transcriptions will be used to support your observations about social communication that you make in your paper.

FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ON TRANSCRIPTION: PLEASE READ THE SCREENSHOTS for the examples AS THERE WASNT ENOUGH SPACE TO WRITE IT ALL DOWN HERE.

4. Then, ANALYSE your transcriptions. You must answer these questions within your analysis:

Which of these actions are intentional/not intentional?
What types of gestures are used by the participants (e.g. iconic, deictic)?
How speech and gestures are connected?
How does co-ordinated eye gaze support social communication?

5. FIND at least 3 peer -reviewed articles of studies that have findings that support your observations and use these articles to support your analysis – and must be used throughout your paper (in-text citations).

Here are a few ideas of articles – you can use them in your paper (and can be considered in your min 3 peer -reviewed articles)
Kita, S., & zyrek, A. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal? Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking. Journal of Memory and Language,48, 16-32.
Halberstadt, A., Parker, A. and Castro, L., (2013). Nonverbal communication: developmental perspectives. In M. Knapp & J. Hall, (Eds); Nonverbal Communication. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
zyrek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. (2008). Development of Cross-Linguistic Variation in Speech and Gesture: Motion Events in English and Turkish. Developmental Psychology,44(4), 1040-1054.
Behne, T., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Children use iconic gestures to inform others. Developmental Psychology, Vol. 50, No. 8, 2049 -2060

6. WRITE YOUR PAPER – (observations and examples from the videos in relations with findings from peer-reviewed artciles) and include your 4 transcripts in Appendix ( and make sure your use in-citations from the articles you have found to support your findings).

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