Memory for Generic and Quantifed Sentences in Spanish-Speaking Children and Adults

Autor/inn/en	Gelman, Susan A.; Tapia, Ingrid Sánchez; Leslie, Sarah-Jane
Titel	Memory for Generic and Quantifed Sentences in Spanish-Speaking Children and Adults
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 43 (2016) 6, S.1231-1244 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000915000483
Schlagwörter	Memory; Recall (Psychology); Language Usage; Child Language; Spanish; Preschool Children; Adults; Sentences; Cognitive Processes; Cultural Context + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Abberufung; Sprachgebrauch; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Spanisch; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Generic language ("Owls eat at night") expresses knowledge about categories and may represent a cognitively default mode of generalization. English-speaking children and adults more accurately recall generic than quantified sentences ("All owls eat at night") and tend to recall quantified sentences as generic. However, generics in English are shorter than quantified sentences, and may be better recalled for this reason. The present study provided a new test of the issue in Spanish, where generics are expressed with an additional linguistic element not found in certain quantified sentences ("Los búhos comen de noche" "Owls eat at night" [generic] vs. "Muchos búhos comen de noche" "Many owls eat at night" [quantified]). Both preschoolers and adults recalled generics more accurately than quantified sentences, and quantified sentences were more often recalled as generic than the reverse. These findings provide strong additional evidence for generics as a cognitive default, in an understudied cultural context. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01