False Belief Reasoning and the Acquisition of Relative Clause Sentences

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1709-1719

  Smith, Mark ^a   Apperly, Ian ^b   White, Victoria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0348217785     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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