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Jared Vasil; Dayna Price; Michael Tomasello – Child Development, 2024
The current study investigated whether age-related changes in the conceptualization of social groups influences interpretation of the pronoun we. Sixty-four 2- and 4-year-olds (N = 29 female, 50 White-identifying) viewed scenarios in which it was ambiguous how many puppets performed an activity together. When asked who performed the activity, a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Preschool Children, Age Differences, Morphemes
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Cimpian, Andrei; Meltzer, Trent J.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2011
Generic sentences (e.g., "Birds lay eggs") convey generalizations about entire categories and may thus be an important source of knowledge for children. However, these sentences cannot be identified by a simple rule, requiring instead the integration of multiple cues. The present studies focused on 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 91) use of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Nouns, Morphology (Languages)