Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: A comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 602-613

  Matsui, Tomoko ^a   Rakoczy, Hannes ^b   Miura, Yui ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67049145346     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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