Why language matters / Janet Wilde Astington and Jodie A. Baird -- Language pathways into the community of monds / Katherine Nelson -- Communication, relationships, and individual differences in children's understanding of mind / Judy Dunn and Marcia Brophy -- Conversation, pretense, and theory of mind / Paul L. Harris -- Talking about "new" information / 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 / Sophie Jacques and Philip David Zelazo -- Representational development and false-elief understanding / Janet Wilde Astington and Jodie A. Baird -- Can language acquisition give children a point of view? / Josef Perner, Petra Zauner, and Manuel Sprung -- Linguistic communication and social understanding / Heidemarie Lohmann -- The role of language in theory-of-mind development / 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 / Claire Hughes
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"This volume is a state-of-the-art account of the latest conceptual and empirical advances in children's theory of mind. The contributors consider the links between theory of mind and language from both communicational and representational perspectives because language serves both of these different functions - that is, social communication in conversation and internal, verbal representation. They also present research from a variety of populations - typically developing children, children with autism, and deaf children. The result is a kaleidoscope view of the complexity of the relationship between language and theory of mind that provides a variety of answers to the question of why language matters for theory of mind."--BOOK JACKET