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Matsui, Tomoko; Rakoczy, Hannes; Miura, Yui; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2009
It has been repeatedly shown that when asked to identify a protagonist's false belief on the basis of his false statement, English-speaking 3-year-olds dismiss the statement and fail to attribute to him a false belief. In the present studies, we tested 3-year-old Japanese children in a similar task, using false statements accompanied by…
Descriptors: German, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
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Dittmar, Miriam; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2008
Using a preferential looking methodology with novel verbs, Gertner, Fisher and Eisengart (2006 ) found that 21-month-old English children seemed to understand the syntactic marking of transitive word order in an abstract, verb-general way. In the current study we tested whether young German children of this same age have this same understanding.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Child Development