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Lewis, Shevaun; Hacquard, Valentine; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Children under 4 years of age often evaluate belief reports based on reality instead of beliefs. They tend to reject sentences like, "John thinks that giraffes have stripes" on the grounds that giraffes do not have stripes. Previous accounts have proposed that such judgments reflect immature Theory of Mind or immature syntactic/semantic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Beliefs, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Ability
Wellwood, Alexis; Gagliardi, Annie; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Acquiring the correct meanings of words expressing quantities ("seven, most") and qualities ("red, spotty") present a challenge to learners. Understanding how children succeed at this requires understanding, not only of what kinds of data are available to them, but also the biases and expectations they bring to the learning…
Descriptors: Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Task Analysis, Prediction