%0 Journal Article
%A Bohn, Manuel
%A Tessler, Michael Henry
%A Kordt, Clara
%A Hausmann, Tom
%A Frank, Michael C.
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-A1F1-D
%R 10.1111/desc.13401
%7 2023-04-23
%D 2023
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Pragmatic abilities are fundamental to successful language use and learning. Individual differences studies contribute to understanding the psychological processes involved in pragmatic reasoning. Small sample sizes, insufficient measurement tools, and a lack of theoretical precision have hindered progress, however. Three studies addressed these challenges in three- to 5-year-old German-speaking children (N = 228, 121 female). Studies 1 and 2 assessed the psychometric properties of six pragmatics tasks. Study 3 investigated relations among pragmatics tasks and between pragmatics and other cognitive abilities. The tasks were found to measure stable variation between individuals. Via a computational cognitive model, individual differences were traced back to a latent pragmatics construct. This presents the basis for understanding the relations between pragmatics and other cognitive abilities.
%K cognitivemodeling, individualdifferences, languagedevelopment, pragmatics
%J Developmental Science
%V 26
%N 6
%] e13401
%@ 1363-755X
%U https://github.com/manuelbohn/pragBathttps://psyarxiv.com/s2e3p/