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Tardif, Twila; So, Catherine Wing-Chee; Kaciroti, Niko – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Two studies were conducted with Cantonese-speaking preschoolers examining J. de Villiers's (1995) hypothesis that syntactic complements play a unique role in the acquisition of false belief (FB). In Study 1, the authors found a positive correlation between FB and syntactic complements in 72 four- to six-year-old Cantonese-speaking preschoolers.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Short Term Memory, Language Acquisition, Sino Tibetan Languages

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