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Sakkalou, Elena; Gattis, Merideth – Cognitive Development, 2012
Two studies were conducted to examine infants' ability to discern intentions from lexical and prosodic cues. Two groups of 14-18-month-olds participated in these studies. In both studies, infants watched an adult perform a sequence of two-step actions on novel toys that produced an end-result. In the first study actions were marked intentionally…
Descriptors: Infants, Cues, Intention, Adults
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Over, Harriet; Gattis, Merideth – Cognitive Development, 2010
Using an elicited imitation paradigm, we investigated whether young children imitate the communicative intentions behind speech. Previous research using elicited imitation has shown that children tend to correct ungrammatical sentences. This finding is usually interpreted as evidence that children, like adults, remember and reproduce the gist of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Imitation, Intention, Language Processing