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Yang, Yang; Wang, Li; Wang, Qi – Child Development, 2021
Cultural experiences can influence how people attend to different emotional cues. Whereas semantic content explicitly describes feelings, vocal tone conveys implicit information regarding emotions. This cross-cultural study examined children's attention to emotional cues in spoken words. The sample consisted of 121 European American (EA) and 120…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Whites, Asians
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Capelli, Carol A.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Two experiments compared the abilities of third and sixth graders and adults to recognize sarcasm given context and intonation cues. Children recognized sarcasm only when given a speaker's sarcastic intonation cue, even when context strongly indicated a nonliteral interpretation. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Cues, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students