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Hansen, Mikkel B.; Petersen, Esben N.; Poulsen, Arne; Salès-Wuillemin, Edith – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
The third-person belief ascription, "Marie believes that the contract is in the cabinet," may engender two interpretations: (1) It neutrally describes what is on Marie's mind and (2) it offers indirect evidence about reality, committing the speaker to the cabinet as the most likely location. The circumstances that lead to the evidential…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Attribution Theory, Theory of Mind, Experiments
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Thomsen, Ditte Boeg; Poulsen, Mads – Journal of Child Language, 2015
When learning their first language, children develop strategies for assigning semantic roles to sentence structures, depending on morphosyntactic cues such as case and word order. Traditionally, comprehension experiments have presented transitive clauses in isolation, and cross-linguistically children have been found to misinterpret object-first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Indo European Languages, Preschool Children