Evidentiality in language and cognition
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Evidentiality in language and cognition.
What is the relation between language and thought? Specifically, how do linguistic and conceptual representations make contact during language learning? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the acquisition of evidentiality (the linguistic encoding of information source) and its relation to children's evidential reasoning. Previous studies have hypothesized that the acquisition ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.04.001