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Schmerse, Daniel; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2015
We investigated whether children at the ages of two and three years understand that a speaker's use of the definite article specifies a referent that is in common ground between speaker and listener. An experimenter and a child engaged in joint actions in which the experimenter chose one of three similar objects of the same category to perform an…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Child Development
Rakoczy, Hannes; Warneken, Felix; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2009
We investigated preschoolers' selective learning from models that had previously appeared to be reliable or unreliable. Replicating previous research, children from 4 years selectively learned novel words from reliable over unreliable speakers. Extending previous research, children also selectively learned other kinds of acts--novel games--from…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Preschool Children, Credibility, Learning Processes
Namy, Laura L.; Campbell, Aimee L.; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
This article reports 2 experiments examining the changing role of iconicity in symbol learning and its implications regarding the mechanisms supporting symbol-to-referent mapping. Experiment 1 compared 18- and 26-month-olds' mapping of iconic gestures (e.g., hopping gesture for a rabbit) vs. arbitrary gestures (e.g., dropping motion for a rabbit).…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Role, Nonverbal Learning, Infants

Carpenter, Malinda; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael – Child Development, 2002
This study investigated 2-year-olds' understanding of others' intentions in a social learning context. After seeing a demonstration of how to open a box, children in two "No Prior Intention" conditions were less likely than those in "Prior Intention" conditions to open the box themselves when the adult unsuccessfully tried to open it. Results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Familiarity, Imitation
Ambridge, Ben; Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2006
In many cognitive domains, learning is more effective when exemplars are distributed over a number of sessions than when they are all presented within one session. The present study investigated this "distributed learning effect" with respect to English-speaking children's acquisition of a complex grammatical construction. Forty-eight children…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Research, Language Acquisition, English

Tomasello, Michael – Human Development, 1995
Comments on Gauvain's discussion, in this issue, of the development of thinking from a sociocultural perspective, expanding her analysis by comparing research on apes who have developed in natural habitats with apes raised by humans in something resembling a human culture. Argues that the study of nonhuman primates can contribute to the emerging…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology