Evidentiality in language and cognition

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-299

  Papafragou, Anna ^a   Li, Peggy ^b   Choi, Youngon ^c   Han, Chung hye ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidentiality; Language acquisition; Language and thought; Pragmatics; Semantics; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; THINKING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847135681     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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