University of Western Australia, West Perth, Western Australia, 6872, Australia.
Child Dev. 2012 Jan-Feb;83(1):223-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01681.x. Epub 2011 Dec 21.
The hypothesis that language plays a role in theory-of-mind (ToM) development is supported by a number of lines of evidence (e.g., H. Lohmann & M. Tomasello, 2003). The current study sought to further investigate the relations between maternal language input, memory for false sentential complements, cognitive flexibility, and the development of explicit false belief understanding in 91 English-speaking typically developing children (M age = 61.3 months) and 30 children with specific language impairment (M age = 63.0 months). Concurrent and longitudinal findings converge in supporting a model in which maternal language input predicts the child's memory for false complements, which predicts cognitive flexibility, which in turn predicts explicit false belief understanding.
语言在心理理论（ToM）发展中起作用的假设得到了许多证据的支持（例如，H. Lohmann 和 M. Tomasello，2003）。本研究旨在进一步调查英语为母语的 91 名正常发展儿童（M 年龄=61.3 个月）和 30 名特定语言障碍儿童（M 年龄=63.0 个月）的母亲语言输入、对虚假句子补语的记忆、认知灵活性与显性错误信念理解发展之间的关系。同时性和纵向研究结果一致支持这样一种模式，即母亲的语言输入预测孩子对虚假补语的记忆，而这种记忆又预测认知灵活性，而认知灵活性又反过来预测显性错误信念理解。
