Thought and Language: Association of Groupmindedness with Young English-Speaking Children's Production of Pronouns

Autor/inn/en	Vasil, Jared; Moore, Charlotte; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	Thought and Language: Association of Groupmindedness with Young English-Speaking Children's Production of Pronouns
Quelle	In: First Language, 43 (2023) 5, S.516-538 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Vasil, Jared)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/01427237231169398
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Preschool Children; Language Acquisition; Language Usage; Bayesian Statistics; Comparative Analysis; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Age Differences; Cognitive Development; Child Development; English; Social Cognition; Developmental Stages; Psycholinguistics; Databases + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachgebrauch; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kognitive Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; English language; Englisch; Soziale Kognition; Psycholinguistik; Datenbank
Abstract	Shared intentionality theory posits that at age 3, children expand their conception of plural agency to include 3- or more-person groups. We sought to determine whether this conceptual shift is detectable in children's pronoun use. We report the results of a series of Bayesian hierarchical generative models fitted to 479 English-speaking children's first-person plural, first-person singular, second-person, third-person plural, and third-person singular pronouns. As a proportion of pronouns, children used more first-person plural pronouns, only, after 3;0 compared to before. Additionally, children used more 1pp. pronouns when their mothers used more 1pp. pronouns. As a proportion of total utterances, all pronoun classes were used more often as children aged. These findings suggest that a shift in children's social conceptualizations at age 3 is reflected in their use of 1pp. pronouns. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01