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Direct linkKhu, Melanie; Chambers, Craig G.; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2020
In communicative situations, preschoolers use shared knowledge, or "common ground," to guide their interpretation of a speaker's referential intent. Using eye-tracking measures, this study investigated the time course of 4-year-olds' (n = 95) use of two different speakers' perspectives and assessed how individual differences in this…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Comprehension
Graham, Susan A.; San Juan, Valerie; Khu, Melanie – Journal of Child Language, 2017
When linguistic information alone does not clarify a speaker's intended meaning, skilled communicators can draw on a variety of cues to infer communicative intent. In this paper, we review research examining the developmental emergence of preschoolers' sensitivity to a communicative partner's perspective. We focus particularly on preschoolers'…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Cues, Preschool Children
Khu, Melanie; Chambers, Craig; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2018
Using a novel emotional perspective-taking task, this study investigated 4-year-olds' (n = 97) use of a speaker's emotional prosody to make inferences about the speaker's emotional state and, correspondingly, their communicative intent. Eye gaze measures indicated preschoolers used emotional perspective inferences to guide their real-time…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Child Development, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
