Further development in social reasoning revealed in discourse irony understanding

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 126-138

  Filippova, Eva ^a,b   Astington, Janet Wilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38849122619     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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