Jacob (5;0), on the other hand, had 3/4 (75%) performance with the English declaratives and 3/4 (75%) correct judgments with the Spanish declaratives. In an interesting fashion, Jacob consistently assigned a judgment of “silly” in two contexts. For example, Jacob had issues with sentence 2a) “They always put on socks”. He stated that this description was silly when describing the younger kids (who weren’t putting on their socks), yet Jacob also stated that the description was silly when used to describe the older kids (who were clearly shown putting on socks). There are a number of reasons to explain what might have caused this. First, it is possible that Jacob didn’t understand the experiment. However, this possibility can be ruled out because it wasn’t the case that Jacob was simply guessing in every context and produced the incorrect judgments throughout. …show more content…
Jacob never produced an incorrect judgment when it came to images of the younger kids in the declarative category, so this would serve as another argument that Jacob understood what was going on. It is possible that the sock set of pictures was a bit ambiguous. Jacob might have thought that the children were taking off their socks rather than putting them on. This is a possible explanation for his behavior in that context. Aubrey at one point uttered “No because they’re little” when explaining one of her judgments for the younger kids pictures, so this could indicate that she did not have any ambiguity issues and likely had a stronger grasp of what was going on—especially given her 100% performance rate in both