Suggate, Sebastian P. and Stoeger, Heidrun (2014) Do nimble hands make for nimble lexicons? Fine motor skills predict knowledge of embodied vocabulary items. FIRST LANGUAGE, 34 (3). pp. 244-261. ISSN 0142-7237, 1740-2344
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Theories and research in embodied cognition postulate that cognition grounded in action enjoys a processing advantage. Extending this theory to the study of how fine motor skills (FMS) link to vocabulary development in preschool children, the authors investigated FMS and vocabulary in 76 preschoolers. Building on previous research, they hypothesized that links between FMS and vocabulary were driven by lexical items containing a greater body-object interaction (BOI). After controlling for age and part of speech (i.e., nouns vs. verbs), results indicated that FMS explained a similar amount of variance in BOI vocabulary as general vocabulary did. Mediation analyses indicated that the relation between FMS and general vocabulary was mediated by BOI vocabulary. To the authors' knowledge, this study provides the first evidence that FMS play a role in BOI vocabulary development in the preschool period.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SCHOOL READINESS; LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; CHILDREN; ACHIEVEMENT; BODY; INTERRELATION; COMPREHENSION; RECRUITS; BRAIN; RISK; Body-object interaction; embodied cognition; fine motor skills; vocabulary; word learning |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik > Lehrstuhl für Schulpädagogik (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stöger) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2019 09:36 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2019 09:36 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10059 |
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