Young children's understanding of pretense

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1993, Pages

  Harris, Paul L ^a   Kavanaugh, Robert D ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/1166074     Document Type: Article

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