2021
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ywb2j
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Bilingual children judge moral, social, and language violations as less transgressive than monolingual children

Abstract: Learning the rules and expectations that govern our social interactions is one of the major challenges of development. The current study examined whether bilingualism is associated with differences in children’s developing social knowledge. We presented 54 four- to six-year-old monolingual and bilingual children with vignettes of moral (e.g., hitting), social (e.g., wearing pants on one's head), and language (e.g., calling a common object by a nonsense word) transgressions, and asked about their permissibility… Show more

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