Relations between mother-child talk and 3- to 5-year-old children's understanding of belief: Beyond mental state terms to talk about the mind

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-385

  Turnbull, William ^a,b   Carpendale, Jeremy I M ^a,b   Racine, Timothy P ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Psychology ^*

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