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Children and adults successfully comprehend subject-only sentences online
Paul, Pooja; Ziegler, Jayden; Chalmers, Elizabeth. - : Public Library of Science, 2019
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What is in a name? The Development of Cross-Cultural Differences in Referential Intuitions ...
Abstract: Past work has shown systematic differences between Easterners’ and Westerners’ intuitions about the reference of proper names. Understanding when these differences emerge in development will help us understand their origins. In the present study, we investigate the referential intuitions of English- and Chinese- speaking children and adults in the U.S. and China. Using a truth-value judgement task modelled on Kripke's classic Gödel case, we find that the cross-cultural differences are already in place at age seven. Thus, these differences cannot be attributed to later education or enculturation. Instead, they must stem from differences that are present in early childhood. We consider alternate theories of reference that are compatible with these findings and discuss the possibility that the cross-cultural differences reflect differences in perspective-taking strategies ...
Keyword: Cognitive Psychology; Developmental Psychology; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Multicultural Psychology; Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Psychology; Semantics and Pragmatics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/w5x4b
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w5x4b
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