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@article{citeulike:4453670, abstract = {Consistent with prior research, 5- and 6-year-old children overestimated their knowledge of the intended referent of ambiguous messages. Yet they correctly revised their interpretations of ambiguous messages in light of contradicting information that followed immediately, while maintaining their initial interpretations of unambiguous messages (Experiment 1). Children of this age were able to integrate information over two successive ambiguous messages to identify the intended referent (Experiment 2). However, unlike 7- and 8-year-olds, they were no more likely to search for further information following ambiguous messages compared with unambiguous ones (Experiment 3). We conclude that although 5- and 6-year-olds' interpretations of ambiguous messages are not tentative at the outset, they can use source monitoring skills to treat them as tentative retrospectively, at least over short time spans.}, author = {Beck, S. R. and Robinson, E. J.}, citeulike-article-id = {4453670}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jecp.2000.2583}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11292313}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11292313}, doi = {10.1006/jecp.2000.2583}, issn = {0022-0965}, journal = {Journal of experimental child psychology}, keywords = {ambiguity, epistemics, language\_acquisition, semantics}, month = {May}, number = {1}, pages = {95--114}, posted-at = {2009-05-03 06:33:52}, priority = {2}, title = {Children's ability to make tentative interpretations of ambiguous messages.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jecp.2000.2583}, volume = {79}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4453670 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4453670 N2 - Consistent with prior research, 5- and 6-year-old children overestimated their knowledge of the intended referent of ambiguous messages. Yet they correctly revised their interpretations of ambiguous messages in light of contradicting information that followed immediately, while maintaining their initial interpretations of unambiguous messages (Experiment 1). Children of this age were able to integrate information over two successive ambiguous messages to identify the intended referent (Experiment 2). However, unlike 7- and 8-year-olds, they were no more likely to search for further information following ambiguous messages compared with unambiguous ones (Experiment 3). We conclude that although 5- and 6-year-olds' interpretations of ambiguous messages are not tentative at the outset, they can use source monitoring skills to treat them as tentative retrospectively, at least over short time spans. IS - 1 JF - Journal of experimental child psychology SN - 0022-0965 EP - 114 TI - Children's ability to make tentative interpretations of ambiguous messages. VL - 79 SP - 95 KW - ambiguity KW - epistemics KW - language_acquisition KW - semantics AU - Beck, SR AU - Robinson, EJ PY - 2001/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jecp.2000.2583 ER -