Early Linguistic Reference to First and Second Person Depends on Social Understanding as Well as Language Skills: Evidence from Czech 30-Month-Olds

Autor/inn/en	Smolík, Filip; Bláhová, Veronika
Titel	Early Linguistic Reference to First and Second Person Depends on Social Understanding as Well as Language Skills: Evidence from Czech 30-Month-Olds
Quelle	In: First Language, 41 (2021) 1, S.109-125 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smolík, Filip)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723720938898
Schlagwörter	Slavic Languages; Form Classes (Languages); Language Acquisition; Interpersonal Competence; Verbs; Psycholinguistics; Preschool Children; Language Usage; Language Skills; Grammar; Foreign Countries; Intelligence Tests; Vocabulary; Verbal Ability; Task Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Language Processing; Language Classification; Parent Child Relationship; Czech Republic; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Slawische Sprache; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Psycholinguistik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachgebrauch; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Grammatik; Ausland; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Wortschatz; Mündliche Leistung; Aufgabenanalyse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sprachverarbeitung; Sprachtypologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	The early use of first and second person pronouns has been viewed as a sign of emerging social understanding. However, it may also depend on general language development: pronouns do not appear among the first words children acquire. In addition, some languages conjugate verbs for person, and the inflections may thus show similar relations to social understanding and language as pronouns. Very few studies have examined the relations between early person reference on the one hand and both social understanding and language development on the other. The present study used data on spontaneous language transcripts and language tasks from 58 Czech-speaking children aged 30 months to examine the relations between person reference, social understanding, and general language development. Social understanding was estimated from children's use of the mental state language (MSL). The results confirm that both MSL and general language development show unique relations to person reference with pronouns as well as verbs. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01