Mental State Verb Learning and Theory of Mind in Mandarin-Speaking Children

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Developmental

Authors

Yuanyuan Chang
Teachers College, Columbia University
Yuexin LiPresenting Author
Teachers College, Columbia University
Sining Gao
Teachers College, Columbia University
Tianyi Liu
Teachers College, Columbia University
Haiwei Liu
Teachers College, Columbia University
Peter Gordon
Teachers College, Columbia University

Abstract

The study examines whether Mandarin-speaking children can learn new mental state verbs from syntactic information and whether mastery of mental state verbs predicts theory of mind. Results show that children used syntactic information to infer novel verb meaning, while theory of mind did not correlate with mastery of the verbs.

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Mental State Verb Learning and Theory of Mind in Mandarin-Speaking Children

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