1. Introduction: opening up options Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher; Part
I: Language, development and evolution; 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 Gómez; 5. Thinking in language?
Evolution and a modularist possibility Peter Carruthers; Part II: Language,
reasoning and concepts; Introduction Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher; 6.
Aphasic language, aphasic thought: an investigation of propositional
thinking in an a-propositional aphasic Rosemary Varley; 7. Representing
representations Gabriel Segal; 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; Part III: Language and
conscious reasoning; Introduction Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher; 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.
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