Four-year olds' understanding of pretend and forget

No evidence for propositional reasoning

Bibliographic Data

ID20366298
AuthorsSuzanne E Hidi, Suzanne Hidi (Institute for Christian Studies), Angela Hildyard (Institute for Christian Studies)
Year1979
Volume6
Issue3
Pages493-510
Publication date1979-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000900002506
PMID536412
OpenAlexW2110344368
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited4

It is argued in this paper that 4-year-old children do not perform logical operations corresponding to formal logic upon the sentential components of implicative verbs to produce the indirect implications, as was suggested by Macnamara, Baker & Olson (1976). First, it is shown that the indirect implications tested by Macnamara et al. are not the implications which would be derived on the basis of formal reasoning. Second, additional empirical evidence is presented to show that when children hear a story containing a sentence with an implicative verb they do not combine the sentential components of that implicative verb (i.e. the presuppositions and implicative) to arrive at the implication of their conjunction. It is argued that the children draw upon their past personal knowledge concerning the event described in the story and import additional premises where necessary in order to derive the indirect implications

Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Linguistics · Logical reasoning · Presupposition · Propositional calculus · Sentence · Verb · Child and Animal Learning Development · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Philosophy · Psychology

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