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Publication details [#50020]

Resches, Mariela and Miguel Pérez Pereira. 2007. Referential communication abilities and Theory of Mind development in preschool children. Journal of Child Language 34 (1) : 21–52.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

A sample of normally developing preschool children were given two Theory of Mind tasks, considered to evaluate growing complexity levels of attribution of knowledge-ignorance, and of comprehension of false-belief. Comprehension of false belief appears to constitute the most important predictor of changes in preschool children’s communicative competence development.