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Ju, Narae; Williams, Natalie; Sedivy, Julie; Chambers, Craig G.; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2023
This study examined 4- and 5-year-olds' incremental interpretation of size adjectives, focusing on whether contrastive inferences are modulated by speaker behavior. Children (N = 120, 59 females, mostly White, tested between July, 2018 and August, 2019) encountered either a conventional or unconventional speaker who labeled objects in a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Inferences, Interpersonal Communication, Behavior
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Khu, Melanie; Chambers, Craig; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2018
Using a novel emotional perspective-taking task, this study investigated 4-year-olds' (n = 97) use of a speaker's emotional prosody to make inferences about the speaker's emotional state and, correspondingly, their communicative intent. Eye gaze measures indicated preschoolers used emotional perspective inferences to guide their real-time…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Child Development, Intonation, Suprasegmentals