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ERIC Number: EJ387612
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Mental Terms and the Development of Certainty.
Moore, Chris; And Others
Child Development, v60 n1 p167-71 Feb 1989
Examines the understanding of the pragmatic function of mental terms ("think,""know,""guess") to express the relative certainty of 69 children aged 3-11. Results showed an improvement with age for the "know-think" and "know-guess" contrasts, but no improvement with age for the "think-guess" contrast. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics, Verbal Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Mental Terms; Nova Scotia (Halifax)