LINGUIST List 22.4828 Sat Dec 03 2011 Books: Cognitive Science/Language Acquisition/Syntax: de Mulder Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Mariëtte Bonenkamp , Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind and (mental) language: de Mulder Message 1: Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind and (mental) language: de Mulder Date: 02-Dec-2011 From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl> Subject: Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind and (mental) language: de Mulder E-mail this message to a friend Title: Putting the pieces together: The development of theory of mind and (mental) language Series Title: LOT Dissertation series Published: 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. 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