摘要：This study investigated how children rely on the mind of the speaker to infer unfamiliar words. Sixty 3 to 5-year-old children were interviewed individually with word inference and false belief tasks. Children's sensitivity to the speakers' intentions and prior experiences increased with age. Unexpectedly, their performance was not different with the condition of mind construct. Children's inferring word meanings were positively,but not sigificantly,correlated with understanding others" false beliefs..
关键词：Language development;word Learning;pragmatics;theory of mind
