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Publication Date: 2002
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Five-Year-Olds' Handling of Reference and Description in the Domains of Language and Mental Representation.
Apperly, I. A.; Robinson, E. J.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v83 n1 p53-75 Sep 2002
Three experiments examined limitations in 5-year-olds' understanding of mental and linguistic representations. Findings indicated relatively poor performance on task involving two labels for one object, requiring children to treat another's knowledge as representing only some feature of its real referent: dice but not eraser. There were parallel difficulties with written linguistic representations, suggesting that 4- and 5-year-olds lack metalinguistic awareness that words both refer and describe. (Author/KB)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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