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Object substitution pretense reflects a general capacity to interpret objects as symbols

2024-12-09

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<p>Nonlinguistic external representations, such as diagrams, animations, or puppet shows, involvelocal relations between a perceptually available object (a symbol) and an entity that is relevant inthe current communicative context (a discourse referent). By analyzing the empirical evidence onearly pretend play, I argue that object substitution pretense can be fully accounted for if it isconceived of as a subspecie...

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Literature Corpus work: 74bcb302-ffe1-5fe2-afb2-3bf26a1cae84
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/kb8t9

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