Telling others what's new: Preschoolers' adherence to the given-new contract

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 341-379

  Saylor, Megan M ^a   Baird, Jodie A ^b   Gallerani, Catherine ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PLAY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33748518189     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0703_7     Document Type: Article

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