caa a22 4500 469053194 CHVBK 20180323132835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01067988 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01067988 Akiyama M. Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 48128, Dearborn, Michigan aut Cross-linguistic contrasts of verification and answering among children [Elektronische Daten] [M. Akiyama] This review article examines how children verify a statement (e.g.,You are a child. Right or wrong?) and answer a corresponding question (e.g.,Are you a child? Yes or no?) in English, French, Japanese, and Korean. While people verify affirmative statements and answer affirmative questions similarly across the four languages, they answer negative questions differently across the four languages. In English, answering negative questions works in a way opposite to verification (e.g.,Are you not a child? Yes; You are not a child. Wrong). In French,si is used in the place of theyes response in English. In Japanese and Korean, answering negative questions works in a way similar to verification (e.g.,Are you not a child? No; You are not a child. Wrong). The effects of these linguistic characteristics are examined. Findings are: (1) All children across the four languages appear to start answering negative questions using the English system; (2) English-speaking children find verifying negative statements more difficult than answering the corresponding questions but Japanese-speaking children find it less difficult; and (3) while English-speaking and Korean-speaking children find true negative statements more difficult to verify than false negative statements, Japanese-speaking children find them less difficult. Language-universal and language-specific processes in verification and answering are discussed. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/2(1992-03-01), 67-85 0090-6905 21:2<67 1992 21 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067988 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067988 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Akiyama M. Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 48128, Dearborn, Michigan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/2(1992-03-01), 67-85 0090-6905 21:2<67 1992 21 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer