Two-Year-Old Children's Sensitivity to a Parent's Knowledge State When Making Requests

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 659-677

  O'Neill, Daniela K ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030542942     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01758.x     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Anselmi, D., Tomasello, M., & Acunzo, M. (1986). Young children's responses to neutral and specific contingent queries. Journal of Child Language, 13, 135-144.
2. Astington, J. W., Harris, P. L., & Olson, D. R. (Eds.). (1988). Developing theories of mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Bartsch, K., & Wellman, H. M. (1995). Children talk about the mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Bates, E. (1976). Language and context: The acquisition of pragmatics. New York: Academic.
5. Bates, E., Camaioni, L., & Volterra, V. (1979). The acquisition of performatives prior to speech. In E. Ochs & B. B. Schieffelin (Eds.), Developmental pragmatics (pp. 111-129). New York: Academic.
6. Bloom, L. (1991). Language development from two to three. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Bretherton, I., & Bates, E. (1979). The emergence of intentional communication. In I. C. Uzgiris (Ed.), Social interaction and communication during infancy. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
8. Bretherton, I., McNew, S., & Beeghly-Smith, M. (1981). Early person knowledge as expressed in gestural and verbal communication: When do infants acquire a "theory of mind"? In M. E. Lamb & L. R. Sherod (Eds.), Infant social cognition (pp. 333-373). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
9. Butcher, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (1993). From one spoken word to two: Exploring the changing nature of gesture. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans.
10. Butterworth, G., Harris, P., Leslie, A., & Frith, U. (Eds.). (1991). Perspectives on the child's theory of mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Psychological Society.
11. Clark, H. H., & Marshall, C. R. (1981). Definite reference and mutual knowledge. In A. K. Joshi, B. L. Webber, & I. A. Sag (Eds.), Elements of discourse understanding (pp. 10-63). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
12. Cochran, W. G. (1954). Some methods for strengthening the common tests. Biometrics, 10, 417-451.
13. de Lernos, C. (1981). Interactional processes in the child's construction of language. In W. Deutsch (Ed.), The child's construction of language (pp. 57-76). New York: Academic.
14. Dunn, J. (1988). The beginnings of social understanding. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
15. Dunn, J. (1991). Young children's understanding of other people: Evidence from observations within the family. In D. Frye & C. Moore (Eds.), Children's theories of mind: Mental states and social understanding (pp. 97-114). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
16. Engel, S. (1986). Learning to reminisce: A developmental study of how young children talk about the past. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, City University of New York.
17. Feyereisen, P., & de Lannoy, J.-D. (1991). Gestures and speech: Psychological investigations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Flavell, J. H., Botkin, P. T., Fry, C. L., Wright, J. W., & Jarvis, P. E. (1968). The development of role-taking and communication skills in children. New York: Wiley.
19. Foster, S. H. (1986). Learning discourse topic management in the preschool years. Journal of Child Language, 13, 231-250.
20. Foster, S. H. (1990). The communicative competence of young children: A modular approach. London: Longman.
21. Garvey, C. (1984). Children's talk. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
22. Golinkoff, R. M. (1983). The preverbal negotiation of failed messages: Insights into the transition period. In R. M. Golinkoff (Ed.), The transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication (pp. 57-78). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
23. Golinkoff, R. M. (1986). "I beg your pardon?" The preverbal negotiation of failed messages. Journal of Child Language, 13, 455-476.
24. Golinkoff, R. M. (1993). When is communication a "meeting of minds"? Journal of Child Language, 20, 199-207.
25. Gopnik, A., Slaughter, V., & Meltzhoff, A. (1994). Changing your views: How understanding visual perception can lead to a new theory of the mind. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell (Eds.), Children's early understanding of the mind (pp. 157-181). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
26. Greenfield, P. M. (1979). Informativeness, presupposition, and semantic choice in single-word utterances. In E. Ochs & B. B. Schieffelin (Eds.), Developmental pragmatics (pp. 159-166). New York: Academic.
27. Greenfield, P. M., & Smith, J. (1976). The structure of communication in early language development. New York: Academic.
28. Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. L. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and semantics: Vol. 3. Speech acts (pp. 225-242). New York: Academic.
29. Iverson, J. M., Volterra, V., Pizzuto, E., & Capirci, O. (1993). The role of communicative gesture in the transition to the two-word stage. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans.
30. Keenau, E. O., & Schieffelin, B. B. (1976). Topic as a discourse notion: A study of topic in the conversations of children and adults. In C. N. Li (Ed.), Subject and topic (pp. 335-384). New York: Academic.
31. Mantel, N., & Haenzel, W. (1959). Statistical aspects of the analysis of data from retrospective studies of disease. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 22, 719-748.
32. Maratsos, M. P. (1975). Nonegocentric communication abilities in preschool children. Child Development, 44, 697-700.
33. Marcos, H. (1991). Reformulating requests at 18 months: Gestures, vocalizations, and words. First Language, 11, 361-375.
34. Marcos, H., & Kornhaber-le Chanu, M. K. (1992). Learning how to insist and clarify in the second year: Reformulation of requests in different contexts. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 15, 359-376.
35. Marvin, R. S., Greenberg, M. T., & Mossler, D. G. (1976). The early development of conceptual perspective taking: Distinguishing among multiple perspectives. Child Development, 47, 511-514.
36. Masur, E. F. (1983). Gestural development, dual-directional signaling, and the transition to words. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 12, 93-109.
37. McTear, M. (1985). Children's conversation. Oxford: Blackwell.
38. Menig-Peterson, C. L. (1975). The modification of communicative behavior in preschool-aged children as a function of the listener's perspective. Child Development, 46, 1015-1018.
39. Morford, M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (1992). Comprehension and production of gesture in combination with speech in one-word speakers. Journal of Child Language, 19, 559-580.
40. Mossler, D. G., Marvin, R. S., & Greenberg, M. T. (1976). Conceptual perspective taking in 2- to 6-year-old children. Developmental Psychology, 12, 85-86.
41. O'Neill, D. K., Astington, J. W., & Flavell, J. H. (1992). Young children's understanding of the role that sensory experiences play in knowledge acquisition. Child Development, 63, 474-490.
42. Perner, J. (1991). Understanding the representational mind. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press.
43. Perner, J., & Leekam, S. R. (1986). Belief and quantity: Three-year-olds' adaptation to listener's knowledge. Journal of Child Language, 13, 305-315.
44. Piaget, J. (1926). The language and thought of the child. New York: Harcourt Brace.
45. Pillow, B. H. (1989). Early understanding of perception as a source of knowledge. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 47, 116-129.
46. Povinelli, D. J., & deBlois, S. (1992). Young children's (Homo sapiens) understanding of knowledge formation in themselves and others. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 106, 228-238.
47. Pratt, C., & Bryant, P. (1990). Young children understand that looking leads to knowing (so long as they are looking into a single barrel). Child Development, 61, 973-982.
48. Reddy, V. (1991). Playing with others' expectations: Teasing and mucking about in the first year. In A. Whiten (Ed.), Natural theories of mind: Evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading (pp. 143-158). Oxford: Blackwell.
49. Ross, H. S., & Lollis, S. P., (1987). Communication within infant social games. Developmental Psychology, 23, 241-248.
50. Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language, 50, 696-735.
51. Scollon, R. (1976). Conversations with a one-year-old: A case study of the developmental foundation of syntax. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.
52. Shatz, M. (1994a). Theory of mind and the development of social-linguistic intelligence in early childhood. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell (Eds.), Children's early understanding of the mind (pp. 311-329). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
53. Shatz, M. (1994b). A toddler's life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
54. Shatz, M., & O'Reilly, A. W. (1990). Conversational or communicative skill? A reassessment of two-year-old children's behavior in miscommunication episodes. Journal of Child Language, 17, 131-146.
55. Snow, C. E. (1990). Building memories: The ontogeny of autobiography. In D. Cicchetti & M. Beeghly (Eds.), The self in transition: Infancy to childhood (pp. 213-242). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
56. Tomasello, M., Anselmi, D., & Farrar, M. J. (1984/ 1985). Young children's coordination of gestural and linguistic reference. First Language, 5, 199-210.
57. Wellman, H. M. (1990). The child's theory of mind. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press.
58. Wellman, H. M. (1993). Early understanding of mind: The normal case. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & D. Cohen (Eds.), Understanding other minds: Perspectives from autism (pp. 10-39). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
59. Wellman, H. M., & Bartsch, K. (1994). Before belief: Children's early psychological theory. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell (Eds.), Children's early understanding of the mind (pp. 331-354). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
60. Wellman, H. M., & Woolley, J. (1990). From simple desires to ordinary beliefs: The early development of everyday psychology. Cognition, 35, 245-275.
61. Wieman, L. A. (1976). Stress patterns of early child language. Journal of Child Language, 3, 283-286.
62. Wilcox, J., & Howse, P. (1982). Children's use of gestural and verbal behavior in communicative misunderstandings. Applied Psycholinguistics, 3, 15-27.
63. Wilcox, J., & Webster, E. J. (1980). Early discourse behavior: An analysis of children's responses to listener feedback. Child Development, 51, 1120-1125.
64. Wimmer, H., Hogrefe, G., & Perner, J. (1988). Children's understanding of informational access as source of knowledge. Child Development, 59, 386-396.
65. Zinobar, B., & Martlew, M. (1985). Developmental changes in four types of gesture in relation to acts and vocalizations from 10 to 21 months. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3, 293-306.