2024
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13410
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The Icing on the Cake. Or Is it Frosting? The Influence of Group Membership on Children's Lexical Choices

Thomas St. Pierre,
Jida Jaffan,
Craig G. Chambers
et al.

Abstract: Adults are skilled at using language to construct/negotiate identity and to signal affiliation with others, but little is known about how these abilities develop in children. Clearly, children mirror statistical patterns in their local environment (e.g., Canadian children using zed instead of zee), but do they flexibly adapt their linguistic choices on the fly in response to the choices of different peers? To address this question, we examined the effect of group membership on 7‐ to 9‐year‐olds' labeling of ob… Show more

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