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Publication details [#36550]

Moore, Chris and Jane Davidge. 1989. The development of mental terms: Pragmatics or semantics? Journal of Child Language 16 (3) : 633–641.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
belief | certainty | mental construct | pragmatics | semantics1
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0305-009
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that by four to five years of age, children understand that beliefs can be held with varying degrees of certainty.