@article{RDM, author = {Afshordi, Narges and Sullivan, Kathleen R. and Markson, Lori}, url = {http://data.library.wustl.edu/record/8}, title = {Children’s third-party understanding of communicative interactions in a foreign language DataSet}, abstract = {Two studies explored young children’s understanding of the role of shared language in communication by investigating how monolingual English-speaking children interact with an English speaker, a Spanish speaker, and a bilingual experimenter who spoke both English and Spanish. When the bilingual experimenter spoke in Spanish or English to request objects, four-year-old children, but not three-year-olds, used her language choice to determine whom she addressed (e.g. requests in Spanish were directed to the Spanish speaker). Importantly, children used this cue – language choice – only in a communicative context. The findings suggest that by four years, monolingual children recognize that speaking the same language enables successful communication, even when that language is unfamiliar to them. Three-year-old children’s failure to make this distinction suggests that this capacity likely undergoes significant development in early childhood, although other capacities might also be at play.}, number = {RDM}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.7936/K74B30QG}, recid = {8}, pages = {25 KB}, address = {2017-12-14}, }