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The semantics and pragmatics of belief reports in preschoolers

Author(s) -

Valentine Hacquard

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2163-5951

pISSN - 2163-5943

DOI - 10.3765/salt.v22i0.3085

Subject(s) - pragmatics , semantics (computer science) , style (visual arts) , psychology , span (engineering) , linguistics , truth value , relevance theory , relevance (law) , cognitive psychology , cognition , computer science , philosophy , literature , neuroscience , law , political science , programming language , art , civil engineering , engineering

Children under 4 years have been claimed to lack adult-like semantic representations of belief verbs like 'think'. Based on two experiments involving a truth-value judgment task, we argue that 4-year olds' apparently deviant interpretations arise from pragmatic difficulty understanding the relevance of belief, rather than from conceptual or semantic immaturity.

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