Young children's sensitivity to new and given information when answering predicate-focus questions
| Autor: | Elena Lieven, Dorothé Salomo, Michael Tomasello |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Transitive relation Context effect Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Language acquisition Language and Linguistics Predicate (grammar) Psycholinguistics Developmental psychology Task analysis Video technology CLIPS Psychology computer General Psychology computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Applied Psycholinguistics |
| ISSN: | 1469-1817 0142-7164 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s014271640999018x |
| Popis: | In two studies we investigated 2-year-old children's answers to predicate-focus questions depending on the preceding context. Children were presented with a successive series of short video clips showing transitive actions (e.g., frog washing duck) in which either the action (action-new) or the patient (patient-new) was the changing, and therefore new, element. During the last scene the experimenter asked the question (e.g., “What's the frog doing now?”). We found that children expressed the action and the patient in the patient-new condition but expressed only the action in the action-new condition. These results show that children are sensitive to both the predicate-focus question and newness in context. A further finding was that children expressed new patients in their answers more often when there was a verbal context prior to the questions than when there was not. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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