More than one path to pragmatics? Insights from children's grasp of implicit, figurative and ironical meaning

N Pouscoulous - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Human communication requires impressive inferential abilities and mind-reading skills. To
learn how to speak and become competent communicators children need both. The …

Auditory and visual category learning in children and adults.

CL Roark, E Lescht, A Hampton Wray… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Categories are fundamental to everyday life and the ability to learn new categories is
relevant across the lifespan. Categories are ubiquitous across modalities, supporting …

Perceptual decision-making in children: Age-related differences and EEG correlates

C Manning, EJ Wagenmakers, AM Norcia… - Computational Brain & …, 2021 - Springer
Children make faster and more accurate decisions about perceptual information as they get
older, but it is unclear how different aspects of the decision-making process change with …

The role of salience in young children's processing of ad hoc implicatures

EJ Yoon, MC Frank - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Language comprehension often requires making implicatures. For example,
inferring that “I ate some of the cookies” implicates that the speaker ate some but not all …

Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences

E Wilson, N Katsos - Journal of Child Language, 2022 - cambridge.org
To better understand the developmental trajectory of children's pragmatic development,
studies that examine more than one type of implicature as well as associated linguistic and …

The role of perspective-taking in children's quantity implicatures

E Wilson, R Lawrence, N Katsos - Language Learning and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Young children excel at pragmatic inferences known as ad hoc quantity implicatures: they
can infer, for example, that a speaker who said “the card with apples” meant the card with …

[PDF][PDF] Could it be?: Children's Representation of Multiple Possibilities

S Mazor - cogsci.ucsd.edu
The ability to reason about multiple possibilities is central to human cognition. We reason
about possibilities when making a choice between two options, weighing the pros and cons …

[PDF][PDF] Children's comprehension of implicatures in picture-matching tasks Elspeth Wilson ep321@ cam. ac. uk rev

M Fortier, D Kellier, M Flecha - osf.io
Children’s comprehension of implicatures in picture-matching tasks Page 1 Children’s
comprehension of implicatures in picture-matching tasks Elspeth Wilson ep321@cam.ac.uk rev …

[PDF][PDF] Perceptual Decision-Making in Children

C Manning, EJ Wagenmakers, AM Norcia, G Scerif… - 2020 - pure-oai.bham.ac.uk
Children make faster and more accurate decisions about perceptual information as they get
older, but it is unclear how different aspects of the decision-making process change with …

[PDF][PDF] Children's comprehension of implicatures in picture-matching tasks Elspeth Wilson ep321@ cam. ac. uk 30/4/20

M Fortier, D Kellier, M Flecha - osf.io
Children’s comprehension of implicatures in picture-matching tasks Page 1 Children’s
comprehension of implicatures in picture-matching tasks Elspeth Wilson ep321@cam.ac.uk …