A bilingual advantage in how children integrate multiple cues to understand a speakers referential intent英文清晰.pdf

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition /BIL Additional services for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here A bilingual advantage in how children integrate multiple cues to understand a speakers referential intent W. QUIN YOW and ELLEN M. MARKMAN Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 18 / Issue 03 / July 2015, pp 391 - 399 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000133, Published online: 10 June 2014 Link to this article: /abstract_S1366728914000133 How to cite this article: W. QUIN YOW and ELLEN M. MARKMAN (2015). A bilingual advantage in how children integrate multiple cues to understand a speakers referential intent. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18, pp 391-399 doi:10.1017/ S1366728914000133 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from /BIL, IP address: 9 on 23 Nov 2015 Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 18 (3), 2015, 391–399 C Cambridge University Press 2014 doi:10.1017/S1366728914000133 A bilingual advantage in how W. Q U I N YOW Singapore University of Technology and Design children integrate multiple cues E L L E N M . M A R K M A N Stanford University to understand a speaker’s referential intent∗ (Received: August 25, 2013; final revision received: February 26, 2014; accepted: February 28, 2014; first published online 10 June 2014) In everyday communication, speakers make use of a variety of contextual and gestural cues to modulate the meaning of an utterance. Young children have difficulty in integrating multiple communicative cues when some of them have to be interpreted differently depending on other co