3- and 5-year-olds' development of mental states understanding : a preliminary analysis of their daily conversation.

• Main Author: Lee, Sharon Song Song.
• Other Authors: Qu Li
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Applied sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38624
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The developmental pattern of theory of mind in bilingual children was investigated. This study adopted the methodology done Dunn, Bretherton, and Munn (1987) by studying the utterances and conversations that explicitly contained reference to mental state words. In this study, 15 children of age 3...