dc.contributor.author | Doscas, Michelle | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-18T15:11:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-06-18T15:11:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-04-29 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4811 | |
dc.description | Four year olds have difficulty understanding the relation Gricean Maxim. This paper strives to see if the addition of verbal context will help these children recognize violations to this maxim more consistently. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The present study investigates if 4-year-old children use people’s pragmatic competence as a standard for learning from them. In this study we define a person’s pragmatic competence by their ability to adhere to the Gricean maxim of relation. The children were divided into three conditions with different levels of verbal context, a no context condition, a rich context condition and a richer context condition. Four-year-olds did not perform differently based on the level of context they received. A linear regression revealed that children’s ability to answer comprehension questions correctly while watching a video, predicted their performance on the word-learning task. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University | en_US |
dc.subject | preschoolers | en_US |
dc.subject | learn words | en_US |
dc.subject | context cues | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Developmental psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Language acquisition | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Pragmatics | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Conversation -- Psychological aspects | en_US |
dc.title | Do context cues help preschoolers learn words by differentiating between reliable and unreliable informants? | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Do preschoolers use context cues | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.school | Vanderbilt University | en_US |
dc.description.department | Psychological Sciences | en_US |