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Two-year-olds use pragmatic cues to differentiate reference to objects and actions
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- Authors
- Tomasello, M., & Akhtar, N.
- Venue
- Cognitive Development
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-04
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 201-224
- ISSN
- 0885-2014 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2096532934
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 9.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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