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Moore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 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…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition