Sincere, Deceitful, and Ironic Communicative Acts and the Role of the Theory of Mind in Childhood.

Front Psychol · 2017 · PMC5276808 · PMID 28194120

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(2003) , the authors explained the existence of such an increasing trend of difficulty on the basis of the Cognitive Pragmatic theory ( Bara, 2010 ) and the increasing complexity of the inferential processes involved in the various pragmatic tasks investigated.

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