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Chris Moore, Kiran Pure, David Furrow, Children's Understanding of the Modal Expression of Speaker Certainty and Uncertainty and Its Relation to the Development of a Representational Theory of Mind, Child Development, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Jun., 1990), pp. 722-730
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