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 |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Yow, Wei Quin |
|---|---|
| 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. |
|---|---|
| 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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