Deaf children of hearing parents show a protracted delay in perfor-mance on ‘theory of mind’ measures that suggests they encounterdifficulties in acquiring knowledge of false beliefs and other mentalstates. Considerable evidence indicates that children’s early experi-ence of adults’ mental state talk predicts their later social-cognitivedevelopment. However, no previous study has analyzed very youngdeaf children’s access to conversation about mental states. We com-pared the conversational turn-taking and input of hearing parentsto deaf and hearing children aged 17–35 months in the UK andSweden. Mothers of hearing children used far more cognitive men-tal state language with their infants and their conversations werecharacterized by more communicatively effective turn-taking thanmothers of deaf children. Across two different cultures, these find-ings indicate that conversations differ significantly in these aspectsof interaction thought to be crucial for later social-cognitive devel-opment.
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Titolo: | Mental state language and quality of conversational experience in deaf and hearing children |
Autori: | Morgan, G; Meristo, M; Mann, W; Hjelmquist, E; Surian, Luca; Siegal, Michael |
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Titolo del periodico: | COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2014 |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-84888414234 |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000332050900004 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2013.10.002 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/99935 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 03.1 Articolo su rivista (Journal article) |