Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross‐linguistic study with Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children

Birsu Kandemirci; Anna Theakston; Ditte Boeg thomsen; Silke Brandt

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Does evidentiality support source monitoring and false belief understanding? A cross‐linguistic study with Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children

Birsu Kandemirci, Anna Theakston, Ditte Boeg thomsen, Silke Brandt

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This study investigates the impact of evidentiality on source monitoring and the impact of source monitoring on false belief understanding (FBU), while controlling for short-term memory, age, gender, and receptive vocabulary. One hundred (50 girls) monolingual 3- and 4-year-olds from Turkey and the UK participated in the study in 2019. In Turkish, children's use of direct evidentiality predicted their source monitoring skills, which, in turn, predicted their FBU. In English, FBU was not related to source monitoring. Combined results from both languages revealed that Turkish-speaking children had better FBU than English-speaking children, and only for Turkish-speaking children, better source monitoring skills predicted better FBU. This suggests an indirect impact of evidentiality on FBU by means of source monitoring in Turkish.

Original language	English
Journal	Child Development
Early online date	7 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13905
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 7 Mar 2023

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Do Source Monitoring and Evidential Marking Support Children’s ToM Understanding?: A cross-linguistic study between Turkish and English speaking children
Kandemirci, B. (Creator), Theakston, A. (Creator), Thomsen , D. B. (Creator) & Brandt, S. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 22 Dec 2021
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