Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross-linguistic study with Turkish- and English-speaking children
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Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross-linguistic study with Turkish- and English-speaking children. / Kandemirci, Birsu; Theakston, Anna; Boeg Thomsen, Ditte; Brandt, Silke.
In: Child Development, Vol. 94, No. 4, 2023, p. 889-904.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross-linguistic study with Turkish- and English-speaking children
AU - Kandemirci, Birsu
AU - Theakston, Anna
AU - Boeg Thomsen, Ditte
AU - Brandt, Silke
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This study investigates the impact of evidentiality on source monitoring and the impact of source monitoring on false belief understanding (FBU), while controlling for short-term memory, age, gender, and receptive vocabulary. One hundred (50 girls) monolingual 3- and 4-year-olds from Turkey and the UK participated in the study in 2019. In Turkish, children's use of direct evidentiality predicted their source monitoring skills, which, in turn, predicted their FBU. In English, FBU was not related to source monitoring. Combined results from both languages revealed that Turkish-speaking children had better FBU than English-speaking children, and only for Turkish-speaking children, better source monitoring skills predicted better FBU. This suggests an indirect impact of evidentiality on FBU by means of source monitoring in Turkish.
AB - This study investigates the impact of evidentiality on source monitoring and the impact of source monitoring on false belief understanding (FBU), while controlling for short-term memory, age, gender, and receptive vocabulary. One hundred (50 girls) monolingual 3- and 4-year-olds from Turkey and the UK participated in the study in 2019. In Turkish, children's use of direct evidentiality predicted their source monitoring skills, which, in turn, predicted their FBU. In English, FBU was not related to source monitoring. Combined results from both languages revealed that Turkish-speaking children had better FBU than English-speaking children, and only for Turkish-speaking children, better source monitoring skills predicted better FBU. This suggests an indirect impact of evidentiality on FBU by means of source monitoring in Turkish.
U2 - 10.1111/cdev.13905
DO - 10.1111/cdev.13905
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36880255
AN - SCOPUS:85150371021
VL - 94
SP - 889
EP - 904
JO - Child Development
JF - Child Development
SN - 0009-3920
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 371018207