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Why Language Matters for Theory of Mind
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Chapter 1: Janet Wilde Astington & Jodie A. Baird: Why language matters: Introduction to the volume
Chapter 2: Katherine Nelson: Language pathways into the community of minds
Chapter 3: Judy Dunn and Marcia Brophy: Communication, relationships, and individual differences in children's understanding of mind
Chapter 4: Paul L. Harris: Conversation, pretense and theory of mind
Chapter 5: Danielle K. O'Neill: Talking about "new" information: The given/new distinction and children's developing theory of mind
Chapter 6: Derek E. Montgomery: The developmental origins of meaning for mental terms
Chapter 7: Dare Baldwin & Megan Saylor: Language promotes structural alignment in the acquisition of mentalistic concepts
Chapter 8: Sophie Jaques & Philip David Zelazo: Language and the development of cognitive flexibility
Chapter 9: Janet Wilde: Representational development and false-belief understanding
Chapter 10: Jill G. de Villiers: Can language acquisition give children a point of view?
Chapter 11: Josef Perner, Petra Zauner, & Manuel Sprung: What does "that" have to do with point of view? Conflicting desires and "want" in German.
Chapter 12: Heidemarie Lohmann, Michael Tommasello, and Sonja Meyer: Linguistic communication and social understanding
Chapter 13: Peter A. de Villiers: The role of language in theory-of-mind development: What deaf children tell us.
Chapter 14: Helen Tager-Flusberg and Robert M. Joseph: How language facilitates the acquisition of false-belief understanding in children with autism
Chapter 15: Claire Hughes: Genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in language and theory of mind: Common or distinct?

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"...very interesting reading."--PsycCRITIQUES
"...this book offers all the inspiration and a good deal of the background necessary for child language researchers to start contributing to ToM-language debate."--Child Language
"...very interesting reading."--PsycCRITIQUES
"...this book offers all the inspiration and a good deal of the background necessary for child language researchers to start contributing to ToM-language debate."--Child Language

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