Common Ground and Development

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Authors

Language and other forms of communication are inherently ambiguous and therefore require some form of common ground to specify the intended meanings of utterances. Theoretical accounts usually focus on interactions between adults and consider recursive mindreading a prerequisite to establishing common ground. Contrasting these accounts, in this article, we offer a developmental perspective on common ground. We propose that instead of using recursive mindreading, infants rely initially on the expectation that communicative partners act rationally in light of previous interactions, which serves as a starting point for common ground to develop. We describe the changing role of common ground across development. Initially, common ground constrains the meaning of ambiguous communicative acts and facilitates children's acquisition of language. Later in development, common ground makes communication efficient by helping speakers coordinate their actions and intentions, and eventually arrive at recursive mindreading.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftChild Development Perspectives
Jahrgang12
Ausgabenummer2
Seiten (von - bis)104-108
Anzahl der Seiten5
ISSN1750-8592
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.06.2018
Extern publiziertJa

Bibliographische Notiz

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Authors. Child Development Perspectives © 2017 The Society for Research in Child Development

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Forschende

  1. Tobias Otte
  2. Gary Walsh

Publikationen

  1. Developing Carbon Accounting: Between driving Carbon Reductions and Complying with a Carbon Reporting Standard
  2. The continued relevance of compromissory clauses as a source of ICJ jurisdiction
  3. Gremlin fusion products with immunoglobulin Fc domains and their use as antiinflammatories or immunomodulators
  4. What Is Popular Art?
  5. unplugged
  6. Improving the surface quality of AlMgSi1 alloy with the selection of the appropriate vibration grinding stones
  7. Are Si–C bonds formed in the environment and/or in technical microbiological systems?
  8. Decolonizing RFMOs
  9. Wage Structures, Fairness Perceptions, and Job Satisfaction
  10. Anmerkung zu EuGH Rs. C-555/07 (Kücükdeveci)
  11. Lagging behind in CSR?
  12. “From Within Fur and Feathers”
  13. Introduction: The Political Project of Corbynism
  14. New incremental methods for springback compensation by stress superposition
  15. The Weinberg-Salam Model of Electroweak Interactions
  16. Resource-Based View und Personalpolitik
  17. Threshold Level
  18. Lagrangian perspectives on turbulent superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
  19. Akademisches Schreiben
  20. Development of pre-service teachers´teaching performance in physical education during a long-term internship
  21. Integrating highly diverse invertebrates into broad-scale analyses of cross-taxon congruence across the Palaearctic
  22. The complementarity of single-species and ecosystem-oriented research in conservation research
  23. Non-fatal burden of disease due to mental disorders in the Netherlands
  24. Logistical futures the chinese dream, debordering labor, and migration