With Language in Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21746331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill De Villiers (0000-0002-2906-3537, Smith College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 71-95 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1547-3341 • E-ISSN: 1547-5441 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15475441.2020.1820338 |
| OpenAlex | W3110997492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 110 |
Does language have a role to play in conceptual development, and if so, what is that role? Understanding the contents of another person’s mind parallels the development in early childhood of mental state language. Does the conceptual understanding get reflected in and drive the language development, or does the language allow the representation of propositional attitudes like belief? The paper reviews the evidence and sets up the terms of the debate, focusing on the syntax for mental states. It also asks whether syntax development could serve as a scaffold for other concepts that are described by propositions rather than labels. Finally, it reviews experimentation on the syntax of embedded clauses, where subtle phenomena are acquired for which it is impossible to imagine nonverbal counterparts: here, language is human thinking
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Human language · Language development · Linguistics · Mental representation · Mental state · Nonverbal communication · Parallels · Syntax · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
The longitudinal relations between mental state talk and theory of mind
Children’s comprehension of NP embedding
Talking About the Absent and the Abstract
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children
Language and children's understanding of knowledge
Linking fine motor skills with theory of mind in school-age children
What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement-clause constructions and their false-belief understanding
Linguistic cues facilitate children’s understanding of belief-reporting sentences
On the L1 acquisition of recursive no in Japanese
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind
Science and Human Behavior
False-belief understanding in infants
The cognitive functions of language
Beliefs about beliefs [P&W, SR&B]
The Role of Language in the Development of False Belief Understanding
The Neural Basis of Mentalizing
Scaling of Theory-of-Mind Tasks
Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste
Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste
Complements to cognition
Language and Theory of Mind
The conscious access hypothesis
Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?
Interfaces + Recursion = Language?
A Judge-Free Semantics for Predicates of Personal Taste
The Situational Mental File Account of the False Belief Tasks
The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates
Theory of Mind and evidentiality in Romani-Bulgarian bilingual children
Strategies in the acquisition of deixis
Learning about points of view
Functions of Turkish evidentials in early child–caregiver interactions
Pronoun reversals
The acquisition of personal pronouns in French-speaking and English-speaking children
Finding Signatures of Linguistic Reasoning
Reference Across Pathologies
Mind Design and Minimal Syntax
Belief attribution despite verbal interference
Evidentials in Tibetan
Evidentials and source knowledge in Turkish
Direct evidentials, case, tense and aspect in Tibetan
Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms
In defense of a developmental dogma
Culturally embedded schemata for false belief reasoning
Executive function and theory of mind
A longitudinal study of the relation between language and theory-of-mind development
Language and false belief
Re-presenting Representation
Functional Categories and Syntactic Theory
Evidentiality
What kind of concepts need language
Asymmetries in the acquisition of definite and indefinite NPs
Evidentiality, logophoricity and the syntactic representation of pragmatic features
The interface of language and Theory of Mind
On the Absence of X-within-X Recursion in Human Grammar
Development of word order in German complement-clause constructions
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |