Four‐year‐olds incorporate speaker knowledge into pragmatic inferences
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The Role of Speaker Knowledge in Children's Pragmatic Inferences.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Science
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1363-755X,1467-7687
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12920