Preschoolers' Appreciation of Speaker Vocal Affect as a Cue to Referential Intent

Autor/inn/en	Berman, Jared M. J.; Chambers, Craig G.; Graham, Susan A.
Titel	Preschoolers' Appreciation of Speaker Vocal Affect as a Cue to Referential Intent
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107 (2010) 2, S.87-99 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2010.04.012
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Form Classes (Languages); Figurative Language; Human Body; Preschool Children; Age Differences; Evaluation Methods; Visual Stimuli; Comprehension; Auditory Stimuli; Comparative Analysis; Experimental Psychology; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Analytischer Sprachbau; Menschlicher Körper; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Verstehen; Verständnis; Auditive Stimulation; Experimentelle Psychologie; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	An eye tracking methodology was used to evaluate 3- and 4-year-old children's sensitivity to speaker affect when resolving referential ambiguity. Children were presented with pictures of three objects on a screen (including two referents of the same kind, e.g., an intact doll and a broken doll, and one distracter item), paired with a prerecorded referentially ambiguous instruction (e.g., "Look at the doll"). The intonation of the instruction varied in terms of the speaker's vocal affect: positive-sounding, negative-sounding, or neutral. Analyses of eye gaze patterns indicated that 4-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, were more likely to look to the referent whose state matched the speaker's vocal affect as the noun was heard (e.g., looked more often to the broken doll referent in the negative affect condition). These findings indicate that 4-year-olds can use speaker affect to help identify referential mappings during on-line comprehension. (Contains 4 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10