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Children request teaching when asking for names of objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Sidney Strauss  and
Margalit Ziv
Sidney Strauss
Affiliation:
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel sidst@post.tau.ac.il mziv@post.tau.ac.il
Margalit Ziv
Affiliation:
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel sidst@post.tau.ac.il mziv@post.tau.ac.il
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Abstract

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We propose that in addition to children's requests for word names being a reflection of an understanding of the referential nature of words, they may also be requests for adult's teaching. These possible requests for teaching among toddlers, along with other indications, suggest that teaching may be a natural cognition that may be related to the development of theory of mind.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1118 - 1119
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press