TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-year-olds' sensitivity to speakers' intent
T2 - An alternative account of Samuelson and Smith
AU - Diesendruck, Gil
AU - Markson, Lori
AU - Akhtar, Nameera
AU - Reudor, Ayelet
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - Seventy-two 2-year-olds participated in a study designed to test two competing accounts of the effect of contextual change on children's ability to learn a word for an object. The mechanistic account hypothesizes that any change in context that highlights a target object will lead to word learning; the social-pragmatic account maintains that a change in context must be perceived as relevant to the speaker's communicative intentions. Consistent with the latter account, we found that children learned the word when a change in context was intentional but not when it was accidental, and children failed to learn the word for the highlighted object when a speaker naive to the preceding context named the object.
AB - Seventy-two 2-year-olds participated in a study designed to test two competing accounts of the effect of contextual change on children's ability to learn a word for an object. The mechanistic account hypothesizes that any change in context that highlights a target object will lead to word learning; the social-pragmatic account maintains that a change in context must be perceived as relevant to the speaker's communicative intentions. Consistent with the latter account, we found that children learned the word when a change in context was intentional but not when it was accidental, and children failed to learn the word for the highlighted object when a speaker naive to the preceding context named the object.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=1142266483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00320.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00320.x
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C2 - 15323116
AN - SCOPUS:1142266483
SN - 1363-755X
VL - 7
SP - 33
EP - 41
JO - Developmental Science
JF - Developmental Science
IS - 1
ER -