Psychological causation and goal-based episodes: Low-income children's emerging narrative skills

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 439-457

  Benson, Margaret S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040058386     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2006(97)90021-1     Document Type: Article

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