When it is apt to adapt: Flexible reasoning guides children’s use of talker identity and disfluency cues

•We examined children’s flexible use of talker identity and disfluencies in language processing.•5-year-olds’ initial referential predictions were guided by talker-specific cues.•Children reduce their talker-related predictions in response to counterevidence.•Adaptive reasoning accounts for the way...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of experimental child psychology 2018-03, Vol.167, p.314-327
Hauptverfasser:	Thacker, Justine M., Chambers, Craig G., Graham, Susan A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Eye tracking Pragmatic inference Referential intent Speech disfluencies Spoken language comprehension Talker identity
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