That's not what you said earlier: preschoolers expect partners to be referentially consistent

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dc.contributor.authorGraham, Susan
dc.contributor.authorSedivy, Julie
dc.contributor.authorKhu, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-23T20:51:45Z
dc.date.available2020-04-23T20:51:45Z
dc.date.issued2013-02
dc.description.abstractIn a conversation, adults expect speakers to be consistent in their use of a particular expression. We examine whether four-year-olds expect speakers to use consistent referential descriptions and whether these expectations are partner-specific. Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we presented four-year-olds with arrays of objects on a screen. During training, Experimenter 1 (E1) used a target expression to identify one object (i.e. "the spotted dog" to identify a dog that is both spotted and fluffy). Following training, either E1 or a new conversational partner (E2) presented children with test trials. Here, the target objects were referred to using either the original expression (e.g. "the spotted dog") or a new expression (e.g. "the fluffy dog"). Eye-movements indicated that preschoolers were quicker to identify the target referent when the original expression was used by the same speaker. This suggests that four-year-olds, like adults, expect communicative partners to adhere to referential pacts.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGraham, S. A., Sedivy, J., & Khu, M. (2013). Thats not what you said earlier: preschoolers expect partners to be referentially consistent. "Journal of Child Language", 41(1), 34–50. doi: 10.1017/s0305000912000530en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000912000530en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111870
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.titleThat's not what you said earlier: preschoolers expect partners to be referentially consistenten_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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