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ERIC Number: EJ1219987
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Aug
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Referential Processing in 3- and 5-Year-Old Children Is Egocentrically Anchored
Ostashchenko, Ekaterina; Deliens, Gaétane; Geelhand, Philippine; Bertels, Julie; Kissine, Mikhail
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v45 n8 p1387-1397 Aug 2019
An ongoing debate in the literature on language acquisition is whether preschool children process reference in an egocentric way or whether they spontaneously and by-default take their partner's perspective into account. The reported study implements a computerized referential task with a controlled trial presentation and simple verbal instructions. Contrary to the predictions of the partner-specific view, entrained referential precedents give rise to faster processing for 3- and 5-year-old children, independently of whether the conversational partner is the same as in the lexical entrainment phase or not. Additionally, both age groups display a processing preference for the interaction with the same partner, be it for new or previously used referential descriptions. These results suggest that preschool children may adapt to their conversational partner; however, partner-specificity is encoded as low-level auditory-phonological priming rather than through inferences about a partner's perspective.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Belgium
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Leiter International Performance Scale
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