Matthews, Danielle, Abbot-Smith, Kirsten, Biney, Hannah (2018) Individual differences in children’s pragmatic ability: a review of associations with formal language, social cognition and executive functions. In: Social Communication Across the Lifespan, 27th-29th June 2018, Canterbury, Kent. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:70459)
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Abstract
Children vary in their ability to use language in social contexts and this has
important consequences for wellbeing. We review over 50 studies that tested
whether individual differences in pragmatic skill are associated with formal
language ability, mentalising and executive functions in both typical and atypical
development. The strongest and most consistent associations found were
between pragmatic and formal language. Additional associations with mentalising
were observed, particularly with discourse contingency and irony understanding.
Fewer studies considered executive function and evidence is mixed. To make
progress, high-quality studies of specific pragmatic skills are needed to test
mechanistic models of development. We propose 6 goals for future research: 1)
developing an empirically-based taxonomy of pragmatic skills; 2) establishing
which skills matter most for everyday functioning; 3) testing specific hypotheses
about information processing; 4) augmenting measures of individual differences;
5) considering a broader set of psychological associates; 6) employing statistical
tools that model the nested structure of pragmatics and cognition.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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Subjects: |
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF41 Psychology and philosophy |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Kirsten Abbot-Smith |
Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2018 13:36 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:59 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/70459 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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