Young children understand the normative implications of future-directed speech acts.

Much recent research has shown that the capacity for mental time travel and temporal reasoning emerges during the preschool years. Nothing is known so far, however, about young children's grasp of the normative dimension of future-directed thought and speech. The present study is the first to s...

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Main Authors: Karoline Lohse, Maria Gräfenhain, Tanya Behne, Hannes Rakoczy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906105?pdf=render