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Language and thought : interdisciplinary themes / edited by Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: xiv, 324 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521637589 (pbk.) :
  • 0521637589 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P106 .L31634 1998
Contents:
Introduction : opening up options / Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher -- Thought before language : the expression of motion events prior to the impact of a conventional language model / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Ming-Yu Zheng -- Prerequisites for language acquisition : evidence from cases of anomalous language development / Jill Boucher -- Some thoughts about the evolution of LADS, with special reference to TOM and SAM / Juan-Carlos Goḿez -- Thinking in language? evolution and a modularist possibility / Peter Carruthers -- Aphasic language, aphasic thought : an investigation of propositional thinking in an a-propositional aphasic / Rosemary Varley -- Representing representations / Gabriel Segal -- Magic words : how language augments human computation / Andy Clark -- Mapping between the mental and the public lexicon / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson -- Convention-based semantics and the development of language / Stephen Laurence -- Language, thought and the language of thought (Aunty's own argument revisited) / Martin Davies -- Natural language and virtual belief / Keith Frankish -- Meta-intentional nature of executive functions and theory of mind / Josef Perner -- Reflections on language and mind / Daniel Dennett.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection P 106 .L31634 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5143766

Introduction : opening up options / Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher -- Thought before language : the expression of motion events prior to the impact of a conventional language model / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Ming-Yu Zheng -- Prerequisites for language acquisition : evidence from cases of anomalous language development / Jill Boucher -- Some thoughts about the evolution of LADS, with special reference to TOM and SAM / Juan-Carlos Goḿez -- Thinking in language? evolution and a modularist possibility / Peter Carruthers -- Aphasic language, aphasic thought : an investigation of propositional thinking in an a-propositional aphasic / Rosemary Varley -- Representing representations / Gabriel Segal -- Magic words : how language augments human computation / Andy Clark -- Mapping between the mental and the public lexicon / Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson -- Convention-based semantics and the development of language / Stephen Laurence -- Language, thought and the language of thought (Aunty's own argument revisited) / Martin Davies -- Natural language and virtual belief / Keith Frankish -- Meta-intentional nature of executive functions and theory of mind / Josef Perner -- Reflections on language and mind / Daniel Dennett.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-316) and indexes.

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