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Date: 02-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind
and (mental) language: de Mulder


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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind and (mental) language: de Mulder

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Title: Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind
and (mental) language 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Hannah de Mulder

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930546 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This dissertation is about the nature of the relationship between language and
Theory of Mind (ToM, the ability to understand other people's mental states).
Does the development of language influence the child's ToM development or 
is the child's understanding of other people's mental states crucial in the 
development of language? Each of the chapters in this dissertation attempts 
to address this question by focussing on children's ToM development in 
relation not only to their linguistic capacities in a general sense (e.g. general 
vocabulary and understanding of syntax), but also to their understanding of 
language that relates to mental states more directly: "mental" language (e.g. 
understanding of mental state verbs and indirect requests). This dissertation 
investigates this relationship in three- to six-year-old children, in typically and 
atypically developing populations, in correlational and longitudinal studies 
using not only traditional or standardised assessment materials, but novel 
methods of testing as well. The main finding of this thesis is that there is a 
complex developmental relationship between language and ToM, with bi-
directional relations between some domains of language and ToM, but 
idirectional relationships from other domains of language to ToM. More 
specifically, this dissertation demonstrates that although ToM and both 
general and mental vocabulary are bi-directionally related (ToM influences 
vocabulary development and vocabulary influences ToM development), the 
child needs a certain level of general language ability at the sentential level to 
develop ToM. However, a post-hoc finding suggests that understanding of 
locative prepositions may be an important prerequisite for ToM development 
as well. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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