Preschoolers' Use of Talker Information in On-Line Comprehension

Autor/in	Creel, Sarah C.
Titel	Preschoolers' Use of Talker Information in On-Line Comprehension
Quelle	In: Child Development, 83 (2012) 6, S.2042-2056 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01816.x
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Information Sources; Language Acquisition; Reading Comprehension; Eye Movements; Learning Processes; Color; Task Analysis; Child Development; Language Processing; Prediction; Cues; Acoustics; Auditory Stimuli; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Information source; Informationsquelle; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Leseverstehen; Augenbewegung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Aufgabenanalyse; Kindesentwicklung; Sprachverarbeitung; Vorhersage; Stichwort; Akustik; Auditive Stimulation
Abstract	A crucial part of language development is learning how various social and contextual language-external factors constrain an utterance's meaning. This learning process is poorly understood. Five experiments addressed one hundred thirty-one 3- to 5-year-old children's use of one such socially relevant information source: talker characteristics. Participants learned 2 characters' favorite colors; then, those characters asked participants to select colored shapes, as eye movements were tracked. Results suggest that by preschool, children use voice characteristics predictively to constrain a talker's domain of reference, visually fixating the talker's preferred color shapes. Indicating flexibility, children used talker information when the talker made a request for herself but not when she made a request for the other character. Children's ease at using voice characteristics and possible developmental changes are discussed. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10