How and when does the ability to give and understand explanations develop? Morag Donaldson directly addresses this question in the present study, providing evidence from a series of imaginative experiments she carried out with 3- to 10-year-olds. In contrast to many earlier accounts, she demonstrates that children can distinguish between cause and effect and among physical, psychological and logical relations well before the age of 7. The study focuses primarily on the linguistic abilities that are needed for explanation, in particular the understanding of because, so, why?, and how do you know?, and it makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives. However, the study also provides valuable insights into children's related cognitive abilities. Children's Explanations is a book that will be of equal interest to cognitive and developmental psychologists and to psycholinguistics, as well as to researchers in education for whom its topic must be of crucial importance.
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The study focuses primarily on the linguistic abilities needed for explanation, in particular, the understanding of because, so, why? and how do you know? It contributes much to our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives and provides valuable insight into children's related cognitive abilities.
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deductive markers, deductive items, elicited production studies, sentence completion condition, causal direction hypothesis, causal task, previous comprehension experiments, causal connectives, judgement questionnaire, temporal order tasks, reversible items, absolute acceptability, information about temporal order, empirical items, simultaneous items, intentional mode, temporal task, contiguity cues, deductive mode, causal sentences, sentence completion task, pillow burst, silly nose, unmarked sentences, directional element Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Language and Language Acquisition by F. Lowenthal in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mental Models (Cognitive Science Series) by Philip Johnson-Laird on page 151, and Back Matter
- Developmental Psychology (5th Edition) by Robert V. Kail in Back Matter
- Cognitive Development and Acquisition of Language by Timothy E. Moore in Back Matter
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- Understanding Children by Robert Grieve on 6 pages
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