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20 - Embrace Complexity! Multiple Factors Contributing to Cognitive, Social, and Communicative Development

from Part III - Language and Communicative Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

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Annette Karmiloff-Smith
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Nancy Budwig ,
Elliot Turiel  and
Philip David Zelazo
Nancy Budwig
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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. 386 - 401
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