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Children's selective trust in native-accented speakers.

Katherine D Kinzler¹, Kathleen H Corriveau, Paul L Harris

¹Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 5848 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, USA. kinzler@uchicago.edu

Developmental Science

|December 17, 2010

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Preschoolers selectively learn from native-accented speakers, even when information is non-linguistic. This selective trust guides early cultural learning by favoring familiar community members.

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Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Linguistic Anthropology
Social Cognition

Background:

Children's learning is influenced by social factors.
Accents can impact social perception and information processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if young children selectively learn non-linguistic information based on speaker accent.
To determine if this selective learning occurs even without meaningful speech content.

Main Methods:

Two experiments with preschool-aged children.
Exposure to native- and foreign-accented English speakers demonstrating novel object functions silently.
Assessment of children's selective endorsement of demonstrated functions.

Main Results:

Children selectively endorsed non-linguistic information from native-accented speakers over foreign-accented speakers in both experiments.
This preference persisted even when speech content was non-meaningful nonsense speech.

Conclusions:

Young children exhibit selective trust in native-accented speakers for acquiring information.
This behavior suggests an innate orientation towards native community members for cultural learning.