Frog Stories From Four-Year-Olds: Individual Differences in the Expression of Referential and Evaluative Content

Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.27fro

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 223–227

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Frog Stories From Four-Year-Olds: Individual Differences in the Expression of Referential and Evaluative Content

Erika Hoff-Ginsberg | Florida Atlantic University

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.27fro

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