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Direct linkSlade, Lance; Ruffman, Ted – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Forty-four children (mean 3.8 years) were given three false belief, a working memory, and four language tasks (each designed to tap a different aspect of syntax or semantics), and were tested again 6 months later. Once the range of scores in the language and false belief tasks were equated, there was a bidirectional relation between language and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Semantics, Syntax, Preschool Children
