...acquisition of language. Our intentional states - the beliefs, desires, and feelings that we have - are themselves unobservable, but they determine how we...of expression and interpretation provide the mental meaningi for which knowledge of language - its vocabulary, semantics, syntax, and discourse procedures...

...mind of the child. to be sure. but that is not to deny the critical part played by the social world. Children learn language for acts of expression. in...share the thoughts and feelings of other persons. lntentionality is central to the model of language acquisition that 1 describe in this chapter 1L....