TY - JOUR
T1 - Young children's understanding of promising
T2 - Methodological considerations
AU - Maas, Fay K.
AU - Abbeduto, Leonard
PY - 1998/2
Y1 - 1998/2
N2 - In her inceptive study of promising, Astington (1988) found that five-year-olds failed to distinguish promises from predictions when judging story characters' utterances. Instead, their responses were based on whether the promised event had actually occurred. There is reason to believe, however, that the children's poor performance was an artefact of Astington's procedures. We tested this possibility with 32 children (mean age 5;8: range 5;7-6;2) by including several variations of Astington's procedures, but found no effects on the pattern of results. This suggests that Astington's findings are an accurate reflection of the developmental course of knowledge about promising.
AB - In her inceptive study of promising, Astington (1988) found that five-year-olds failed to distinguish promises from predictions when judging story characters' utterances. Instead, their responses were based on whether the promised event had actually occurred. There is reason to believe, however, that the children's poor performance was an artefact of Astington's procedures. We tested this possibility with 32 children (mean age 5;8: range 5;7-6;2) by including several variations of Astington's procedures, but found no effects on the pattern of results. This suggests that Astington's findings are an accurate reflection of the developmental course of knowledge about promising.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0305000997003346
DO - 10.1017/S0305000997003346
M3 - Article
C2 - 9604574
AN - SCOPUS:0031994085
SN - 0305-0009
VL - 25
SP - 203
EP - 214
JO - Journal of child language
JF - Journal of child language
IS - 1
ER -