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Adeline Depierreux

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Open access Aug 2026

The Quantity‐Competence Presumption: Children Use Informativeness to Calibrate Trust and Infer Speakers' Knowledge

ABSTRACT Choosing whom to learn from is critical for human learners. A well‐established strategy to do so is to track informants' past accuracy. Yet this requires both a track record and independent knowledge of the truth—neither of which is available when encountering a new informant in an unfamiliar domain. This pape...

Cyann Bernard, Adeline Depierreux, Olivier Mascaro · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Elcos are common, ajajatas are weird: Manner implicatures guide the interpretation of unfamiliar words for French children and for adults in 18 languages.

Overly long or effortful utterances are interpreted as carrying more information than short or easy ones-a phenomenon known as manner implicatures in pragmatics. Can this mechanism guide the interpretation of unfamiliar words? In seven studies testing adults (N = 1,762) and children (N = 282), participants had to pair...

Olivier Mascaro, Adeline Depierreux, Ninon Peysson et al. · 0 citations

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