Language as mind tools: Learning how to think through speaking

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 451-463

  Brown, Penelope ^a   Levinson, Stephen C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84911101979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203837887     Document Type: Chapter

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