| Description |
Electronic book |
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xiv, 324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: opening up options / Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher -- 2. Thought before language: the expression of motion events prior to the impact of a conventional language model / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Ming-Yu Zheng -- 3. The prerequisites for language acquisition: evidence from cases of anomalous language development / Jill Boucher -- 4. Some thoughts about the evolution of LADS, with special reference to TOM and SAM / Juan-Carlos Gomez -- 5. Thinking in language? Evolution and a modularist possibility / Peter Carruthers -- 6. Aphasic language, aphasic thought: an investigation of propositional thinking in an a-propositional aphasic / Rosemary Varley -- 7. Representing representations / Gabriel Segai -- 8. Magic words: how language augments human computation / Andy Clark -- 9. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson -- 10. Convention-based semantics and the development of language / Stephen Laurence |
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11. Language, thought and the language of thought (Aunty's own argument revisited) / Martin Davies -- 12. Natural language and virtual belief / Keith Frankish -- 13. The meta-intentional nature of executive functions and theory of mind / Josef Perner -- 14. Reflections on language and mind / Daniel Dennett |
| Analysis |
Language acquisition |
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Language and languages Philosophy |
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Reasoning |
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Thought and thinking |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p295-316. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and indexes |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Reasoning.
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Thought and thinking.
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Language Development.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Language Disorders.
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Mental Processes.
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| Author |
Boucher, Jill.
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Carruthers, Peter, 1952-
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| LC no. |
97035248 |
| ISBN |
0521631084 (hb) |
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0521637589 (paperback) |
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