Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners
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Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners.
In the current study we investigated whether 12-month-old infants gesture appropriately for knowledgeable versus ignorant partners, in order to provide them with needed information. In two experiments we found that in response to a searching adult, 12-month-olds pointed more often to an object whose location the adult did not know and thus needed information to find (she had not seen it fall do...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.013