A cross‐linguistic approach to children's reasoning: Turkish‐ and English‐speaking children's use of metatalk

• Published in: Developmental science Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. e13374 - n/a
• Main Authors: Özkan, F. Ece, Hartwell, Kirstie, Köymen, Bahar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Children; Children & youth; cross‐linguistic differences; evidentiality; Houses; metatalk; reasoning; evidentiality; cross-linguistic differences; metatalk; reasoning

When collaboratively solving problems, children discuss information reliability, for example, whether claims are based on direct or indirect observation, termed as “metatalk”. Unlike English in which evidential marking is optional, languages with obligatory evidential marking such as Turkish, might...