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Developing Communicative Competence: A Longitudinal Study of the Acquisition of Mental State Terms and Indirect Requests
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De Mulder, Hannah – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This longitudinal study involving 101 Dutch four- and five-year-olds charts indirect request (IR) and mental state term (MST) understanding and investigates the role that Theory of Mind (ToM) and general linguistic ability (vocabulary, syntax, and spatial language) play in this development. The results showed basic understanding of IR and MST in…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Indo European Languages, Child Language