Table of 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
  • 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