Language development in context

ML Rowe, A Weisleder - Annual Review of Developmental …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Young children learn to communicate in the language (s) of their communities, yet the
individual trajectories of language development and the particular language varieties and …

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

L Rendell, L Fogarty, WJE Hoppitt, TJH Morgan… - Trends in cognitive …, 2011‏ - cell.com
Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent
years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical …

[کتاب][B] Trusting what you're told: How children learn from others

PL Harris - 2012‏ - degruyter.com
In recent de cades there have been several attempts to teach chimpanzees to communicate
via language. One of the most successful programs has involved Kanzi, a male bonobo …

First language acquisition

EV Clark, M Casillas - The Routledge handbook of linguistics, 2015‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Children's selective trust in native‐accented speakers

KD Kinzler, KH Corriveau, PL Harris - Developmental science, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Across two experiments, preschool‐aged children demonstrated selective learning of non‐
linguistic information from native‐accented rather than foreign‐accented speakers. In …

Knowing when to doubt: develo** a critical stance when learning from others.

CM Mills - Developmental psychology, 2013‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Children may be biased toward accepting information as true, but the fact remains that
children are exposed to misinformation from many sources, and mastering the intricacies of …

The moral, epistemic, and mindreading components of children's vigilance towards deception

O Mascaro, D Sperber - Cognition, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Vigilance towards deception is investigated in 3-to-5-year-old children:(i) In Study 1, children
as young as 3 years of age prefer the testimony of a benevolent rather than of a malevolent …

Young children's selective trust in informants

PL Harris, KH Corriveau - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2011‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Young children readily act on information from adults, setting aside their own prior
convictions and even continuing to trust informants who make claims that are manifestly …

Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.

DM Sobel, T Kushnir - Psychological Review, 2013‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Children's causal learning has been characterized as a rational process, in which children
appropriately evaluate evidence from their observations and actions in light of their existing …

Three-and four-year-olds spontaneously use others' past performance to guide their learning

SAJ Birch, SA Vauthier, P Bloom - Cognition, 2008‏ - Elsevier
A wealth of human knowledge is acquired by attending to information provided by other
people–but some people are more credible sources than others. In two experiments, we …