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Behzadnia, Ali; Mehrani, Mehdi B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The present study examined whether young children show any particular bias in response to tag questions. In addition, the study investigated the effects of age and object familiarity on children's accuracy of responses. A total of 137 3-6-year-old children were asked a set of 32 tag questions pertaining to the properties and functions of both…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bias, Responses, Age Differences
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Mehrani, Mehdi B.; Peterson, Carole – First Language, 2017
In the present cross-linguistic study two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of age and linguistic background on response tendencies of preschoolers toward forced-choice questions. A total of 163 2- to 5-year-old children, including 63 Persian speakers, 57 Kurdish speakers and 43 English speakers, were asked a set of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, English, Indo European Languages