Japanese preschool children's understanding of false-belief and grammatical competence : Is there any relationship?

• TSUJI Hiromi

  Osaka Shoin Women's University

Abstract

The relationship between a preschooler's false belief understanding and language competence is inconclusive and is still being debated. The present study investigated the relationship between Japanese children's grammatical competence and their false belief understanding. Grammatical competence measured by the Japanese version of TROG (Bishop, 1989) did not correlate with false belief understanding when children's age was considered. However, when individual grammatical attributes were investigated, there were weak but significant correlations between syntactic aspects and false belief scores even when children's age variances were taken into account.

Journal

• The human science research bulletin of Osaka Shoin Women's University

  The human science research bulletin of Osaka Shoin Women's University 8 113-123, 2009-01-31

  Osaka Shoin Women's College

Keywords

• Theory of mind
• Japanese grammar
• Japanese language
• false beliefs

Details

• CRID: 1571698602523774848
• NII Article ID: 110007027566
• NII Book ID: AA11637107
• ISSN: 13471287
• Text Lang: en
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