APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Spontaneous Temporal and Causal Linguistic Inferences in Preschoolers
- Jessica Sullivan
Skidmore College - Katharine Tillman
University of California, San Diego - Nestor Tulagan
University of California, Irvine - David Barner
University of California San Diego
Abstract
Language allows its users to infer information about time and causality. We tracked the developmental trajectory of 3- to 7-year-olds’ (N =220) use of word order, world knowledge, and semantics for inferring linguistic causal and temporal relations.
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