Robinson Elizabeth J
Warwick University, U.K.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2009 Fall;2009(125):95-103. doi: 10.1002/cd.252.
Young children's well-documented difficulty reporting the sources of their knowledge, and their susceptibility to misleading suggestions about what they saw for themselves, might be reduced when their linguistic community expresses knowledge sources with grammatical evidential markers. Alternatively, until children have acquired certain cognitive prerequisites, they may interpret evidentials simply as markers of speakers' certainty. There is evidence supportive of both views, but with more precisely formulated research questions, specially tailored tasks, and more cross-linguistic comparisons, we can come to understand better the developmental intertwining of linguistic, metalinguistic, and cognitive aspects of children's handling of sources of knowledge.
幼儿在报告知识来源方面有充分记录的困难，以及他们容易受到关于自己所见事物的误导性暗示影响，当他们的语言社群用语法性证据标记来表达知识来源时，这种情况可能会减少。或者，在儿童获得某些认知前提条件之前，他们可能会将证据标记简单地解释为说话者确定性的标记。有证据支持这两种观点，但通过更精确表述的研究问题、专门定制的任务以及更多的跨语言比较，我们可以更好地理解儿童处理知识来源时语言、元语言和认知方面的发展交织情况。
