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Children's Early Awareness of Comprehension as Evident in Their Spontaneous Corrections of Speech Errors
Author(s) -
Wellman Henry M.,
Song JuHyun,
PeskinShepherd Hope
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.12862
Subject(s) - comprehension , psychology , cognition , developmental psychology , cognitive development , control (management) , language development , child development , cognitive psychology , linguistics , philosophy , management , neuroscience , economics
A crucial human cognitive goal is to understand and to be understood. But understanding often takes active management. Two studies investigated early developmental processes of understanding management by focusing on young children's comprehension monitoring. We ask: When and how do young children actively monitor their comprehension of social‐communicative interchanges and so seek to clarify and correct their own potential miscomprehension? Study 1 examined the parent–child conversations of 13 children studied longitudinally in everyday situations from the time the children were approximately 2 years through 3 years. Study 2 used a seminaturalistic situation in the laboratory to address these questions with more precision and control with 36 children aged 2–3 years.