O gesto dêitico e sua sincronia com o prosódico vocal

Abstract

The studies in language acquisition in the interactionist bias suggest that language has a social function and is developed from communicative exchanges between the double dyad. Contributing to this, we have other studies that work on the acquisition of language in a multimodal perspective, attributing not only the gesture, but factors such as targeting and facial expression as coparticipants of this process. Thus, we consider that gestures and speech are inseparable (McNEILL 1985). The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between the deic gesture and vocal production during language acquisition, specifically to know the synchrony of this relationship, quantitatively and qualitatively identifying the use of deictic gestures allied to prosody. Our data were extracted from a corpus of the LAFE (Laboratory of Acquisition of Speech and Writing) and sought to show the occurrence of the deictic gesture of the acquisition process, in a qualitative and quantitative way, composed by a dyad of approximately 12 (ten) months to 27 (twenty seven) months old, born in Recife / PE. To achieve the objectives we use the ELAN software that allows simultaneous transcription and analysis of data, audio and image. The results indicate that the deic gestures are more synchronized with the holophones in a context of joint attention.