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21 - The Cultural Basis of Language and Thought in Development

from Part III - Language and Communicative Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

By
Katherine Nelson
Edited by
Nancy Budwig ,
Elliot Turiel  and
Philip David Zelazo
Nancy Budwig
Affiliation:
Clark University, Massachusetts
Elliot Turiel
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Philip David Zelazo
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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New Perspectives on Human Development , pp. 402 - 424
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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