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Language background shapes third-party communication expectations in 14-month-old infants

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dc.contributor.author Colomer, Marc
dc.contributor.author Sebastián Gallés, Núria
dc.date.accessioned 2020-09-17T09:43:09Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.citation Colomer M, Sebastián-Gallés N. Language background shapes third-party communication expectations in 14-month-old infants. Cognition. 2020 Sep;202:104292. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104292
dc.identifier.issn 0010-0277
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45304
dc.description.abstract Infants expect native and non-native speech to communicate, i.e. to transfer information between third-parties. Here, we explored if infants understand that communication depends on the use of shared conventional systems (e.g. speaking the same language), and if linguistic input (monolingual vs. bilingual) influences infants' expectations about who can communicate with whom. Fourteen-month-old monolingual and bilingual infants were presented with two actresses who spoke distinct languages (Experiment 1) or the same foreign language (Experiment 2). At test, one of the actresses uttered a foreign-language sentence (communicator) to inform the other actress (recipient) about her preference for one of two objects she could not reach. Infants expected effective communication between the two actresses when they belonged to the same linguistic group. When they demonstrated to speak distinct languages, however, only bilinguals expected that the communicator's message would be effectively transmitted to the recipient –they found more surprising the condition in which the recipient gave to the communicator the non-preferred object (vs. the preferred). The results suggest that infants expect speech to convey information between third-parties only when individuals share the same conventional system. In addition, the results suggest that, unlike monolinguals, bilinguals expect speakers of their native-language to have access to multiple conventional systems.
dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by grants from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013): ERC grant agreement number 323961 (Under Control); the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PGC2018-101831-B-I00 AEI FEDER, EU) and the Catalan Government (SGR 2017–268; FI-9015-456763; ICREA ACADEMIA 2018 award).
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof Cognition. 2020 Sep;202:104292
dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104292
dc.title Language background shapes third-party communication expectations in 14-month-old infants
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104292
dc.subject.keyword Communication
dc.subject.keyword Language
dc.subject.keyword Bilingualism
dc.subject.keyword Social affiliation
dc.subject.keyword Third-party expectations
dc.subject.keyword Infant social cognition
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323961
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-101831-B-I00
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

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