21-Month-olds understand the cooperative logic of requests

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3377-3383

  Grosse, Gerlind ^a   Moll, Henrike ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Comprehension; Cooperativeness; Infants; Requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957109261     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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