<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper reports two studies of the development of false belief reasoning in bilingual Roma children in Bulgaria. No previous work has considered Roma children. Two studies were conducted, and in the second study the Roma children spoke a dialect of Romani that contains evidential markers, as does Bulgarian, their second language. Results reveal no advantage of bilingualism, and similar results with age to that found in other groups across the world. The bilingual group had better understanding of evidentials than the monolingual Bulgarian group, possibly related to the linguistic character of the markings. There is contradictory evidence about the relation of ToM and understanding of evidentiality.</p></abstract>

The paper reports two studies of the development of false belief reasoning in bilingual Roma children in Bulgaria. No previous work has considered Roma children. Two studies were conducted, and in the second study the Roma children spoke a dialect of Romani that contains evidential markers, as does Bulgarian, their second language. Results reveal no advantage of bilingualism, and similar results with age to that found in other groups across the world. The bilingual group had better understanding of evidentials than the monolingual Bulgarian group, possibly related to the linguistic character of the markings. There is contradictory evidence about the relation of ToM and understanding of evidentiality.

Theory of Mind and evidentiality in Romani-Bulgarian bilingual children

Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The paper reports two studies of the development of false belief reasoning in bilingual Roma children in Bulgaria. No previous work has considered Roma...

Theory of Mind and evidentiality in Romani-Bulgarian bilingual children

Published Online: Nov 06, 2009

Page range: 21 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10057-009-0007-4

Keywords
Theory of Mind, bilingualism, Romani language, evidentiality

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Theory of Mind and evidentiality in Romani-Bulgarian bilingual children

Published Online: Nov 06, 2009

Page range: 21 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10057-009-0007-4

KeywordsTheory of Mind, bilingualism, Romani language, evidentiality

This content is open access.

Keywords
Theory of Mind, bilingualism, Romani language, evidentiality