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Six-year-old Miriam is sitting with her crayons at the table. I ask her to draw a church. Without hesitation she starts drawing. After a few minutes she hands me her drawing and says, “Look, a church.” The drawing shows a horizontal building with a gabled roof and four vertical windows. To the right of the building there is a steeple with a cross on top.
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Krampen, M. (1991). Introduction. In: Children’s Drawings. Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9679-7_1
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