Preschool children conflate pragmatic agreement and semantic truth

First Language

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 617-627

  Olson, David R ^a   Astington, Janet Wilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children and questions; Metalinguistic development; Metarepresentational development; Preschoolers' language; Speech acts; True false judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890491193     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723713508869     Document Type: Article

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