Why language matters for theory of mind

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Introduction : Why language matters / Janet Wilde Astington and Jodie A. Baird

Language pathways into the community of minds / Katherine Nelson

Communication, relationships, and individual differences in children's understanding of mind / Judy Dunn and Marcia Brophy

Conversations, pretense, and theory of mind / Paul L. Harris

Talking about "new" information : the given/new distinction and children's developing theory of mind / Daniela K. O'Neill

The developmental origins of meaning for mental terms / Derek E. Montgomery

Language promotes structural alignment in the acquisition of mentalistic concepts / Dare A. Baldwin and Megan M. Saylor

Language and the development of cognitive flexibility : implications for theory of mind / Sophie Jacques and Philip David Zelazo

Representational development and false-belief understanding / Janet Wilde Astington and Jodie A. Baird

Can language acquisition give children a point of view? / Jill G. de Villiers

What does "that" have to do with point of view? Conflicting desires and "want" in German / Josef Perner, Petra Zauner, and Manuel Sprung

Linguistic communication and social understanding / Heidemarie Lohmann, Michael Tomasello, and Sonja Meyer

The role of language in theory-of-mind development : what deaf children tell us / Peter A. De Villiers

How language facilitates the acquisition of false-belief understanding in children with autism / Helen Tager-Flusberg and Robert M. Joseph

Genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in language and theory of mind : common or distinct? / Claire Hughes