Belief and Quantity: Three-Year Olds' Adaptation to Listener's Knowledge.

Perner, Josef; Leekam, Susan R.

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ERIC Number: EJ338922

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Belief and Quantity: Three-Year Olds' Adaptation to Listener's Knowledge.

Perner, Josef; Leekam, Susan R.

Journal of Child Language, v13 n2 p305-15 Jun 1986

Investigates young children's ability to adjust the content of their verbal responses according to what they know their listener knows. Younger and older three-year-old children were able to discern what another person knew and did not know and adjusted their responses accordingly. Younger three-year-olds tended to be underinformative. (SED)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Preschool Children, Psycholinguistics

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Language: English

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