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Direct linkKhu, Melanie; Chambers, Craig G.; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2020
In communicative situations, preschoolers use shared knowledge, or "common ground," to guide their interpretation of a speaker's referential intent. Using eye-tracking measures, this study investigated the time course of 4-year-olds' (n = 95) use of two different speakers' perspectives and assessed how individual differences in this…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Comprehension
Peer reviewedAckerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1982
Examines whether young children and adults are able to interpret sarcastic utterances and whether placements of contextual information before or after the utterance differentially affect interpretation. Results obtained from first and third graders and from college students indicated that different placements of contextual information do affect…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Communication Skills
