Psych Journal Article Review
Journal Article Review Paper
Journal Article in APA Format
Corriveau, K. H., Kinzler, K. D., & Harris, P. L. (2013). Accuracy trumps accent in children's endorsement of object labels. Developmental Psychology, 49(3), 470-479. doi:10.1037/a0030604
Title of the journal article
Accuracy Trumps Accent in Children’s Endorsement of Object Labels
Author(s) & Affiliation(s)
Kathleen H. Corriveau, Boston University
Katherine D. Kinzler, University of Chicago
Paul L. Harris, Harvard University
Research Question(s)
Do children prefer people who speak accurately or those who speak with a familiar accent?
Hypothesis/hypotheses
In the course of the preschool years children increasingly weight direct indices of epistemic competence, notably past accuracy, over indices associated with the familiarity and social identity of individual informants.
Procedure
In the first part of the experiment, each child was tested specifically in a fixed order: accent familiarization, pre-accuracy trials, accuracy familiarization, and post-accuracy trials. The children then watched as two speakers, one with a Spanish accent and the other with no accent, labeled trivial items. The participants are asked who they preferred. Next, the one of the speakers starts to occasionally mislabel an item. The participants are again asked who they preferred despite occasional mistakes. Then for the second part of the experiment, children were also tested on accent familiarization, accuracy familiarization, and post-accuracy trials. After, the children listen to 2 speakers of different accents label simple items. The speakers both alternated between correct and incorrect labels.
Participants
61 children for the first experiment: 20 three-year-olds, 20 four-year-olds, and 21 five-year-olds. In the second experiment: 72 four-year-old children.
Research Design
Experimental research, Observational study
Instruments
The two speakers were both female, young adult, bilingual
Journal Article in APA Format
Corriveau, K. H., Kinzler, K. D., & Harris, P. L. (2013). Accuracy trumps accent in children's endorsement of object labels. Developmental Psychology, 49(3), 470-479. doi:10.1037/a0030604
Title of the journal article
Accuracy Trumps Accent in Children’s Endorsement of Object Labels
Author(s) & Affiliation(s)
Kathleen H. Corriveau, Boston University
Katherine D. Kinzler, University of Chicago
Paul L. Harris, Harvard University
Research Question(s)
Do children prefer people who speak accurately or those who speak with a familiar accent?
Hypothesis/hypotheses
In the course of the preschool years children increasingly weight direct indices of epistemic competence, notably past accuracy, over indices associated with the familiarity and social identity of individual informants.
Procedure
In the first part of the experiment, each child was tested specifically in a fixed order: accent familiarization, pre-accuracy trials, accuracy familiarization, and post-accuracy trials. The children then watched as two speakers, one with a Spanish accent and the other with no accent, labeled trivial items. The participants are asked who they preferred. Next, the one of the speakers starts to occasionally mislabel an item. The participants are again asked who they preferred despite occasional mistakes. Then for the second part of the experiment, children were also tested on accent familiarization, accuracy familiarization, and post-accuracy trials. After, the children listen to 2 speakers of different accents label simple items. The speakers both alternated between correct and incorrect labels.
Participants
61 children for the first experiment: 20 three-year-olds, 20 four-year-olds, and 21 five-year-olds. In the second experiment: 72 four-year-old children.
Research Design
Experimental research, Observational study
Instruments
The two speakers were both female, young adult, bilingual