Japanese preschool children\u27s understanding of false-be!ief and grammatical competence: Is there any relationship?

The relationship between a preschooler\u27s false belief understanding and language com­ petence is inconclusive and is still being debated. The present study investigated the relationship between Japanese children\u27s grammatical competence and their false belief understanding. Gram­matical competence measured by the Japanese version of TROG (Bishop，1989) did not correlatewith false belief understanding when children\u27s age was considered. However， when individual grammatical attributes were investigated，there were weak but significant correlations between syntactic aspects and false belief scores even when children\u27s age variances were taken into ac­ count