Common Ground and Development
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in: Child Development Perspectives, Jahrgang 12, Nr. 2, 01.06.2018, S. 104-108.
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T1 - Common Ground and Development
AU - Bohn, Manuel
AU - Köymen, Bahar
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Authors. Child Development Perspectives © 2017 The Society for Research in Child Development
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - common ground
KW - language development
KW - theory of mind
KW - Psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85033501675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/cdep.12269
DO - 10.1111/cdep.12269
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85033501675
VL - 12
SP - 104
EP - 108
JO - Child Development Perspectives
JF - Child Development Perspectives
SN - 1750-8592
IS - 2
ER -