TY - JOUR A1 - O'Madagain, Cathal A1 - Kachel, Gregor A1 - Strickland, Brent T1 - The origin of pointing BT - Evidence for the touch hypothesis JF - Science Advances N2 - Pointing gestures play a foundational role in human language, but up to now, we have not known where these gestures come from. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that pointing originates in touch. We found, first, that when pointing at a target, children and adults oriented their fingers not as though trying to create an “arrow” that picks out the target but instead as though they were aiming to touch it; second, that when pointing at a target at an angle, participants rotated their wrists to match that angle as they would if they were trying to touch the target; and last, that young children interpret pointing gestures as if they were attempts to touch things, not as arrows. These results provide the first substantial evidence that pointing originates in touch. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26110 SN - 2375-2548 VL - 5 IS - 7 PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kachel, Gregor A1 - Moore, Richard A1 - Tomasello, Michael T1 - Two-year-olds use adults' but not peers' points JF - Developmental Science N2 - In the current study, 24- to 27-month-old children (N = 37) used pointing gestures in a cooperative object choice task with either peer or adult partners. When indicating the location of a hidden toy, children pointed equally accurately for adult and peer partners but more often for adult partners. When choosing from one of three hiding places, children used adults’ pointing to find a hidden toy significantly more often than they used peers’. In interaction with peers, children's choice behavior was at chance level. These results suggest that toddlers ascribe informative value to adults’ but not peers’ pointing gestures, and highlight the role of children's social expectations in their communicative development. KW - Kleinkind KW - Studie KW - Nichtverbale Kommunikation KW - Geste KW - Gebaren Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12660 SN - 1467-7687 VL - 21 IS - 5 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten A1 - Kachel, Gregor T1 - Exploring the motivational antecedents of Nepalese learners of L2 English JF - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching N2 - This paper is the first to examine the motivational disposition of Nepalese learners of L2 English. Based on an adapted version of the questionnaire in (Kormos, Judit & Kata Csizér. 2008. Age-related differences in motivation of learning English as a foreign language: Attitudes, selves, and motivated behavior. Language Learning 58. 327–355. Doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00443.x.), we test the robustness and culture-specific applicability of well-known motivational antecedents to this learner population, and we investigate how the effects of these antecedents are mediated by the learners’ gender, age and regional aspects of the educational setting. In doing so, we offer novel ways of analyzing the data: Firstly, we employ random forests and conditional inference trees for assessing the relative importance of motivational antecedents. Secondly, we complement the traditional ‘scale-based approach’, which focuses on holistic constructs like the ‘Ideal L2 Self’, with an ‘item-based approach’ that highlights more specific components of such scales. The results are interpreted with reference to the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, Zoltán. 2005. The psychology of the language learner: Individual differences in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) and to previous studies on other Asian populations of L2 learners. KW - L2 motivation KW - L2 motivational self system KW - English KW - Nepal KW - random forests KW - Zweitsprache KW - Fremdsprachenlernen Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26109 SN - 1613-4141 VL - 58 IS - 4 SP - 379 EP - 418 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Kachel, Gregor T1 - Coming from a world without objects JF - Mind & Language N2 - While research on object individuation assumes that even very young children are able to perceive objects as particulars, we argue that the results of relevant studies can be explained in terms of feature discrimination. We propose that children start out navigating the world with a feature‐based ontology and only later become able to individuate objects spatiotemporally. Furthermore, object individuation is a cognitively demanding achievement resting on a uniquely human form of enculturation, namely the acquisition of deictic demonstratives. We conclude by outlining empirical expectations for operationalizations of our proposal. KW - demonstratives KW - infant cognition KW - kind‐bias KW - object individuation KW - reference Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25000 VL - 37 IS - 2 SP - 159 EP - 176 PB - Wiley Blackwell Publishing Ltd CY - Oxford, UK ER -