When children aren't more logical than adults

An empirical investigation of lying by falsely implicating

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ID3335784
AutoresMailin Antomo (University of Göttingen, autor correspondente), Susanne Müller (0000-0002-0093-3252, University of Göttingen), Katharina Paul (0000-0001-9817-740X, University of Göttingen), Markus Paluch (University of Göttingen), Marianne Thalmann (0000-0002-0610-210X, University of Göttingen), Maik Thalmann
Ano2018
Volume138
Páginas135-148
Data de publicação2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0378-2166 • E-ISSN: 1879-1387
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.pragma.2018.09.010
OpenAlexW2898281489
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas33

Studies on whether lying, as opposed to merely deceiving, is possible with untruthful implicatures have found conflicting evidence. Here, we present two experiments in which we investigated whether untruthful implicatures are judged as lies and the alleged difference between untruthful generalized and particularized conversational implicatures. Furthermore, we investigated untruthful implicatures in language acquisition. Our results show first that false implicatures are categorized as lies, but also that participants differentiate between false asserted content and false implicatures. Second, there is no contrast between PCIs and GCIs in either truthful or untruthful usage. Third, our results reveal an overall similar performance across all three tested age groups (5-6 years, 8-9 years, adults), showing that inferred content is accessible earlier than originally thought. We argue that these results are due to the child-oriented material as well as the high relevance of the implicatures in our experiment, and that previous findings in conflict with our own are caused by children's pragmatic tolerance

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