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dc.contributor.authorHartshorne, Joshua
dc.contributor.authorSnedeker, Jesse
dc.contributor.authorNappa, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-03T14:40:47Z
dash.embargo.terms2014-10-16
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifierQuick submit: 2014-05-28T10:18:48-04:00
dc.identifier.citationHARTSHORNE, JOSHUA K., REBECCA NAPPA, and JESSE SNEDEKER. 2014. “Development of the First-Mention Bias.” Journal of Child Language (April 15): 1–24.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0305-0009en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12226020
dc.description.abstractIn many contexts, pronouns are interpreted as referring to the character mentioned first in the previous sentence, an effect called the ‘first-mention bias’. While adults can rapidly use the first-mention bias to guide pronoun interpretation, it is unclear when this bias emerges during development. Curiously, experiments with children between two and three years old show successful use of order of mention, while experiments with older children (four to five years old) do not. While this could suggest U-shaped development, it could also reflect differences in the methodologies employed. We show that children can indeed use first-mention information, but do so too slowly to have been detected in previous work reporting null results. Comparison across the present and previously published studies suggests that the speed at which children deploy first-mention information increases greatly during the preschool years.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPsychologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofdoi:10.1017/S0305000914000075en_US
dash.licenseLAA
dc.titleDevelopment of the first-mention biasen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.date.updated2014-05-28T14:18:48Z
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.rights.holderJOSHUA K. HARTSHORNE, REBECCA NAPPA and JESSE SNEDEKER
dc.relation.journalJournal of Child Languageen_US
dash.depositing.authorSnedeker, Jesse
dc.date.available2014-10-16T07:30:47Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0305000914000075*
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dash.contributor.affiliatedHartshorne, Joshua
dash.contributor.affiliatedSnedeker, Jesse


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