Monolingual and bilingual children's integration of multiple cues to understand a speaker's referential intent : the role of experience in cognitive development
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Children growing up in a dual-language environment have to constantly monitor the dynamic communicative context to determine what the speaker is trying to say and how to respond appropriately. Such self-generated efforts to monitor speakers' communicative needs may heighten children's sensitivity to and allow them to make better use of communicative cues to figure out a speaker's referential intent. Chapter 1 of this paper reviews the current models of bilingualism and literature on the impact of growing up bilingual, including benefits to the cognitive and communicative development of children. Chapter 2 presents a series of studies to examine how the experience of growing up bilingual may foster children's ability to integrate multiple cues to understand a speaker's referential intent, and how the experience of a communication breakdown of a bilingual nature may increase children's sensitivity to communicative cues. Overall, results provide evidence that growing up in a bilingual environment facilitates a more sophisticated understanding of the demands in a communicative context and support the hypothesis that children's self-generated efforts to cope with communicative challenges heighten their sensitivity to a speaker's communicative intent and foster their cognitive and linguistic development.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
Extent | 1 online resource. |
Publication date | 2010 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
Associated with | Yow, Wei Quin | |
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Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology | |
Primary advisor | Markman, Ellen M | |
Thesis advisor | Markman, Ellen M | |
Thesis advisor | Boroditsky, Lera | |
Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- | |
Advisor | Boroditsky, Lera | |
Advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
Subjects
Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
Statement of responsibility | Wei Quin Yow. |
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Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2010 |
Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Wei Quin Yow
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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