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Why young listeners do not benefit from differentiating verbal redundancy.

S Sonnenschein

    Child Development
    |June 1, 1984
    PubMed
    Summary

    Young children, unlike older listeners, interpret speaker meaning differently when verbal redundancy lacks explicit certainty cues. This impacts how they process communication based on assumptions about speaker authoritativeness.

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    Area of Science:

    • Developmental Psychology
    • Cognitive Science
    • Linguistics

    Background:

    • Younger listeners do not benefit from verbal redundancy due to developmental differences in response criteria.
    • Existing research suggests age-related variations in how listeners interpret communicative intent.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate if young children make different assumptions about speaker authoritativeness compared to older children.
    • To explore how age-related differences in inferring speaker meaning influence the interpretation of verbal redundancy.

    Main Methods:

    • First and fourth graders listened to stories with redundant directions.
    • Stories manipulated speaker age and certainty, influencing protagonist's response to verbal redundancy.
    • Participants judged the protagonist's likely response based on the provided information.

    Main Results:

    • Young children made different inferences about speaker meaning than older children when speaker certainty was not explicit.
    • Age-related differences in interpreting verbal redundancy were observed.
    • Listener assumptions about speaker authoritativeness appear to play a role in communication processing.

    Conclusions:

    • Developmental differences in inferring speaker meaning significantly affect how young listeners process verbal redundancy.
    • Explicit markers of speaker certainty are crucial for young children's accurate interpretation of communication.
    • Understanding listener judgments is key to comprehending communicative interactions.

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