Children's understanding of homonymy: metalinguistic awareness and false belief
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Children's understanding of homonymy: metalinguistic awareness and false belief.
The aim of this study was to explain why children have difficulty with homonymy. Two experiments were conducted with forty-eight children (Experiment 1) and twenty-four children (Experiment 2). Three- and four-year-old children had to either select or judge another person's selection of a different object with the same name, avoiding identical objects and misnomers. Older children were successf...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000900004153