Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 907-912Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00946.x
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- MRC [G0701484] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0701484] Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0701484] Funding Source: researchfish
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Recent studies have demonstrated infants' pragmatic abilities for resolving the referential ambiguity of non-verbal communicative gestures, and for inferring the intended meaning of a communicator's utterances. These abilities are difficult to reconcile with the view that it is not until around 4 years that children can reason about the internal mental states of others. In the current study, we tested whether 17-month-old infants are able to track the status of a communicator's epistemic state and use this to infer what she intends to refer to. Our results show that manipulating whether or not a communicator has a false belief leads infants to different interpretations of the same communicative act, and demonstrate early mental state attribution in a pragmatic context.
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