3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation.
The developmental pattern of theory of mind in bilingual children was investigated. This study adopted the methodology done Dunn, Bretherton, and Munn (1987) by studying the utterances and conversations that explicitly contained reference to mental state words. In this study, 15 children of age 3...
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| author | Lee, Sharon Song Song. |
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| description | The developmental pattern of theory of mind in bilingual children was investigated. This study adopted the methodology done Dunn, Bretherton, and Munn (1987) by studying the utterances
and conversations that explicitly contained reference to mental state words. In this study, 15 children of age 3 and 17 children of age 5 were observed during their free play time. The
children’s speeches were recorded and transcribed. It was found that children of age 3 did have the ability to grasp basic mental state concepts of desires, but not complex mental state concepts of beliefs, when compared to children of age 5. There was no difference found in the functional
use of language in both groups. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/386242019-12-10T14:07:30Z 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. Lee, Sharon Song Song. Qu Li School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Applied sociology The developmental pattern of theory of mind in bilingual children was investigated. This study adopted the methodology done Dunn, Bretherton, and Munn (1987) by studying the utterances and conversations that explicitly contained reference to mental state words. In this study, 15 children of age 3 and 17 children of age 5 were observed during their free play time. The children’s speeches were recorded and transcribed. It was found that children of age 3 did have the ability to grasp basic mental state concepts of desires, but not complex mental state concepts of beliefs, when compared to children of age 5. There was no difference found in the functional use of language in both groups. Bachelor of Arts 2010-05-13T09:00:24Z 2010-05-13T09:00:24Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38624 en Nanyang Technological University 46 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Applied sociology Lee, Sharon Song Song. 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. |
| title | 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. |
| title_full | 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. |
| title_fullStr | 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. |
| title_short | 3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation. |
| title_sort | 3 and 5 year olds development of mental states understanding a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Applied sociology |
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