An investigation of pretend play, mental state terms and false belief understanding: In search of a metarepresentational link

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“Do you know what I want?” Preschoolers’ talk about desires, thoughts and feelings in their conversations with sibs and friends (2007, unknown): “…including: co-operation (Dunn, Brown, Slomkowski, Tesla, & Youngblade, 1991b); connected communication (Slomkowski & Dunn, 1996); pretend play (Nielsen & Dissanayake, 2000; Youngblade & Dunn, 1995); parenting style (Ruffman, Perner, & Parkin, 1999) and talk about conflict, causality, thoughts…”
Mind-mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood (2006, background): “Nielsen and Dissanayake (2000) reported a correlation between 3- and 4-year-olds’ use of mentalstate language during symbolic play with parents and their concurrent ToM performance.”
Telling the story of theory of mind: Deaf and hearing children's narratives and mental state understanding (2006, background): “A similar link between tendencies to use mental state terms (in naturalistic conversation, in prompted pretence and in narrative production) and FB understanding has been observed in hearing children (Brown et al., 1996; Nielsen & Dissanayake, 2000; Symons, Peterson, Slaughter, Doyle, & Roche, 200”