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| Title: | The Role of Evidentiality in Bulgarian Children's Reliability Judgments |
| Author: | Stanka A. Fitneva |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Queen's University |
| Linguistic Field: | Language Acquisition; Morphology; Psycholinguistics |
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Bulgarian
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| Abstract: | Evidentials are grammatical source-of-knowledge markers. In Bulgarian they provide information about authorship – whether the speaker has personally acquired the information or not – and modality – whether perceptual or cognitive mechanisms were involved in the information's generation. In two experiments, Bulgarian kindergarteners and third-graders (ages 6 and 9, N=96) had to decide which one of two utterances containing different evidentials to believe. Experiment 1 showed that children draw on modality information in their decisions: Third-graders favored perceptual over cognitive and kindergartners cognitive over perceptual sources. Experiment 2 showed that third-graders can also draw on the authorship information carried by evidentials: they favored first- over second-hand information. The discussion focuses on understanding the development of children's use of evidentials. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 35, Issue 4, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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