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Zhang, Xiaowen; Zhou, Peng – First Language, 2022
It has been well-documented that although children around 4 years start to attribute false beliefs to others in classic false-belief tasks, they are still less able to evaluate the truth-value of propositional belief-reporting sentences, especially when belief conflicts with reality. This article investigates whether linguistic cues, verb…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Beliefs, Task Analysis, Sentences
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Gamannossi, Beatrice Accorti; Pinto, Giuliana – First Language, 2014
Narrative competence can be considered an indicator of children's knowledge about other people's minds. The present study investigates the relations between, on the one hand, children's narrative competence and their second order language of mind (comprehension of deception) and, on the other, their developmental trends from kindergarten to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theory of Mind, Kindergarten, Primary Education