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Suzuki, Takaaki; Nomura, Jun – First Language, 2020
Mental state terms are believed to be closely related to the development of Theory of Mind (ToM). This study focuses on mental state verbs (MSVs) and investigates how they are used by Japanese-speaking mother-child dyads compared to their English-speaking counterparts. Analyses of their spontaneous speech from the CHILDES archives show that…
Descriptors: Verbs, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Tsuji, Hiromi; Doherty, Martin J. – First Language, 2014
The development of metalinguistic awareness for linguistic politeness was examined in 68 Japanese-speaking children aged between three and five years old. A politeness judgement task was administered together with several phonological judgement tasks and false-belief tasks. Four- and five-year old Japanese children, but not three-year-olds, made…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Standards, Young Children, Japanese