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Peer reviewedSonnenschein, Susan – Child Development, 1988
When first, fourth, and fifth grade speakers played a referential communication game with a fictitious listener, they were more likely to give redundant messages to listeners with whom they had no common shared experience or to strangers than to listeners with whom they had shared a previous experience. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSonnenschein, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates whether first- and fourth-grade children vary their production of redundant messages (saying more than the minimal necessary to be informative) as a function of sharing common experience with a listener. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedSonnenschein, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Describes two experiments comparing how children evaluate three types of uninformative messages (ambiguous, incomplete, inconsistent) and whether and why the speaker's age affects the evaluation of each. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Ambiguity, Communication Research, Communication Skills
