Development of reasoning and the tension between scientific and conversational inference

Social Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 383-396

  Waters, Lorraine J ^a   Siegal, Michael ^b   Slaughter, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversational awareness; Pragmatic development; Scientific reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364914     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00132     Document Type: Article

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