The role of perceptual availability and discourse context in young children’s question answering
| Autor: | Michael Tomasello, Elena Lieven, Dorothé Salomo, Eileen Graf |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Linguistics and Language Discourse analysis media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Language and Linguistics Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Speech General Psychology media_common Context effect Perspective (graphical) Language acquisition Comprehension Action (philosophy) Child Preschool Visual Perception Female Cues Psychology Social psychology Child Language |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language |
| Popis: | Three- and four-year-old children were asked predicate-focus questions (‘What's X doing?’) about a scene in which an agent performed an action on a patient. We varied: (i) whether (or not) the preceding discourse context, which established the patient as given information, was available for the questioner; and (ii) whether (or not) the patient was perceptually available to the questioner when she asked the question. The main finding in our study differs from those of previous studies since it suggests that children are sensitive to the perceptual context at an earlier age than they are to previous discourse context if they need to take the questioner's perspective into account. Our finding indicates that, while children are in principle sensitive to both factors, young children rely on perceptual availability when a conflict arises. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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