{"pk":27220,"title":"Gricean epistemic reasoning in 4-year-olds","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent experimental evidence suggests that adults incorporatespeaker knowledge into the derivation of pragmaticimplicatures. Developmental studies report that 5-year-oldchildren also succeed in taking speaker knowledge intoaccount in implicature computation, but 4-year-olds fail. Thepresent study investigated the pragmatic competence of 4-year-olds, specifically the ability to incorporate speakerknowledge into the derivation of ad hoc scalar implicatures.Using a simple paradigm inspired by referentialcommunication, we found that 4- year-olds are able toincorporate speaker knowledge into implicature derivation.These results have implications for our understanding of thelinguistic, pragmatic, and epistemic abilities of youngchildren.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"implicatures; pragmatics; speaker knowledge"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/704039vq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alyssa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kampa","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Delaware","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Papafragou","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Delaware","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27220/galley/16856/download/"}]}