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Is the quantity maxim strategy child-specific?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Serge Bredart*
Affiliation:
University of Liège
*
Service de Psychologic du Langage (B-32), Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège I, Belgium

Abstract

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Type
Notes and Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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Footnotes

*

The author is a researcher of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research.

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