title: Nine-month-old infants are sensitive to the temporal alignment of prosodic and gesture prominences.
abstract: This study investigated the sensitivity of 9-month-old infants to the alignment between prosodic and gesture prominences in pointing-speech combinations. Results revealed that the perception of prominence is multimodal and that infants are aware of the timing of gesture-speech combinations well before they can produce them.
authors: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Spain. Electronic address: nuria.esteve@upf.edu.
authors: Núria
authors: N
authors: Esteve-Gibert
authors: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Spain.
authors: Pilar
authors: P
authors: Prieto
authors: Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3C), Barcelona, Spain.
authors: Ferran
authors: F
authors: Pons
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D013060:Speech; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Early temporal alignment; Multimodal communication; Multimodal prominence; Pointing; Pointing–speech coordination