Five-year-olds' handling of reference and description in the domains of language and mental representation

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-75

  Apperly, I A ^a   Robinson, E J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metalinguistic awareness; Representations; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043049111     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(02)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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