A gestural repertoire of 1- to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures.

Abstract:

:When we compare human gestures to those of other apes, it looks at first like there is nothing much to compare at all. In adult humans, gestures are thought to be a window into the thought processes accompanying language, and sign languages are equal to spoken language with all of its features. Some research firmly emphasises the differences between human gestures and those of other apes; however, the question about whether there are any commonalities is rarely investigated, and has mostly been confined to pointing gestures. The gestural repertoires of nonhuman ape species have been carefully studied and described with regard to their form and function-but similar approaches are much rarer in the study of human gestures. This paper applies the methodology commonly used in the study of nonhuman ape gestures to the gestural communication of human children in their second year of life. We recorded (n = 13) children's gestures in a natural setting with peers and caregivers in Germany and Uganda. Children employed 52 distinct gestures, 46 (89%) of which are present in the chimpanzee repertoire. Like chimpanzees, they used them both singly, and in sequences, and employed individual gestures flexibly towards different goals.

journal_name

Anim Cogn

journal_title

Animal cognition

authors

Kersken V,Gómez JC,Liszkowski U,Soldati A,Hobaiter C

doi

10.1007/s10071-018-1213-z

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-07-01 00:00:00

pages

577-595

issue

4

eissn

1435-9448

issn

1435-9456

pii

10.1007/s10071-018-1213-z

journal_volume

22

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