Preschoolers Flexibly Shift Between Speakers' Perspectives During Real-Time Language Comprehension

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dc.contributor.authorKhu, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorChambers, Craig G.
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-07T14:43:09Z
dc.date.available2020-05-07T14:43:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-20
dc.description.abstractIn communicative situations, preschoolers use shared knowledge, or "common ground," to guide their interpretation of a speaker's referential intent. Using eye-tracking measures, this study investigated the time course of 4-year-olds' (n = 95) use of two different speakers' perspectives and assessed how individual differences in this ability related to individual differences in executive function and representational skills. Gaze measures indicated partner-specific common ground guided children's interpretation from the earliest moments of language processing. Non-egocentric online processing was positively correlated with performance on a Level 2 visual perspective-taking task. These results demonstrate that preschoolers readily use the perspectives of multiple partners to guide language comprehension and that more advanced representational skills are associated with the rapid integration of common ground information.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKhu, M., Chambers, C. G., & Graham, S. A. (2019). Preschoolers Flexibly Shift Between Speakers' Perspectives During Real-Time Language Comprehension. "Child Development". 2019. pp. 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13270en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13270en_US
dc.identifier.issn0009-3920
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111995
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSociety for Research In Child Developmenten_US
dc.publisher.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Torontoen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.titlePreschoolers Flexibly Shift Between Speakers' Perspectives During Real-Time Language Comprehensionen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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