Acquisition of mental state language in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking children.
Acquisition of mental state language in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking children.
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.36.1.25
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
T. Tardif;H. Wellman
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作者：
T. Tardif;H. Wellman
儿童的心理理论似乎从对欲望的关注到对信仰的关注。但是，尚不清楚（a）这种模式是否普遍，（b）是否也可以用语言和社会文化因素来解释。这项研究检查了10个普通话（21-27个月）和8个讲广东话（18-44个月）幼儿的精神状态语言。结果提出了一种与英语相似的志愿发展的模式，并尽早使用欲望术语，然后是其他精神状态参考。但是，讲中文的孩子更早地使用了欲望术语，即使对于讲普通话的成年人来说，使用术语也很少。这一发现表明，整体顺序的一致性，但是在跨文化的儿童理论发展中，起点和终点的时间和终点的变化。
Children's theory of mind appears to develop from a focus on desire to a focus on belief. However, it is not clear (a) whether this pattern is universal and (b) whether it could also be explained by linguistic and sociocultural factors. This study examined mental state language in 10 Mandarin-speaking (21-27 months) and 8 Cantonese-speaking (18-44 months) toddlers. The results suggest a pattern of theory-of-mind development similar to that in English, with early use of desire terms followed by other mental state references. However, the Chinese-speaking children used desire terms much earlier, and the use of terms for thinking was very infrequent, even for Mandarin-speaking adults. This finding suggests a consistency in the overall sequence, but variation in the timing of beginning and end points, in children's theory-of-mind development across cultures.