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One goal of the current investigation was to determine whether children's awareness of lexical ignorance is related to their understanding of false belief. A second goal was to determine whether awareness of lexical ignorance is related to basic memory processes, in particular, those used in an object recognition task. In Study 1, 37 children completed two linguistic judgments (object nameability judgment and word familiarity judgment), a false belief task, and two memory tasks. In Study 2, 40 children completed the two linguistic judgments, two false belief tasks, and two memory tasks. In general, the results suggest that awareness of lexical ignorance and understanding of false belief are distinct constructs during the preschool years. Accuracy on the object recognition task was related to accuracy of object nameability judgments, which supports Merriman and Lipko's (2008) dual criterion account of linguistic judgment. |
