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Publication details [#38164]
Wing, Carla S. and Ellin Kofsky Scholnick. 1986. Understanding the language of reasoning: Cognitive, linguistic, and developmental influences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 15 (5) : 383–401. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Springer
ISBN
0090-6905
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study investigates how age (11-and 16-year-olds and college students) and syntactic structure (subordinating conjunctions, cognitive verbs, and verb modifications) influence the competence to identify the hypothetical and observational referents of factual, counterfactual, and uncertainty belief expressions.