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Stock, Hayli R.; Graham, Susan A.; Chambers, Craig G. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
We investigated the influence of speaker certainty on 156 four-year-old children's sensitivity to generic and nongeneric statements. An inductive inference task was implemented, in which a speaker described a nonobvious property of a novel creature using either a generic or a nongeneric statement. The speaker appeared to be confident, neutral, or…
Descriptors: Cues, Inferences, Preschool Children, Patterned Responses
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Gaskell, M. Gareth; Quinlan, Philip T.; Tamminen, Jakke; Cleland, Alexandra A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Four experiments used the psychological refractory period logic to examine whether integration of multiple sources of phonemic information has a decisional locus. All experiments made use of a dual-task paradigm in which participants made forced-choice color categorization (Task 1) and phoneme categorization (Task 2) decisions at varying stimulus…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonemes, Phonology, Figurative Language