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How to answer questions when you've got nothing to say*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Dianne Horgan
Dianne Horgan
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Indiana University
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 159 - 165
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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Address for correspondence: Dept. of Educational Psychology, Indiana University, 2806 East Tenth St., Bloomington, Ind. 47401.

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