Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Why language matters: Introduction to the volume, Janet Wilde Astington & Jodie A. Baird
Chapter 2. Language pathways into the community of minds, Katherine Nelson
Chapter 3. Communication, relationships, and individual differences in children's understanding of mind, Judy Dunn and Marcia Brophy
Chapter 4. Conversation, pretense and theory of mind, Paul L. Harris
Chapter 5. Talking about "new" information: The given/new distinction and children's developing theory of mind, Danielle K. O'Neill
Chapter 6. The developmental origins of meaning for mental terms, Derek E. Montgomery
Chapter 7. Language promotes structural alignment in the acquisition of mentalistic concepts, Dare Baldwin & Megan Saylor
Chapter 8. Language and the development of cognitive flexibility, Sophie Jaques & Philip David Zelazo
Chapter 9. Representational development and false-belief understanding, Janet Wilde
Chapter 10. Can language acquisition give children a point of view?, Jill G. de Villiers
Chapter 11. What does "that" have to do with point of view? Conflicting desires and "want" in German., Josef Perner, Petra Zauner, & Manuel Sprung
Chapter 12. Linguistic communication and social understanding, Heidemarie Lohmann, Michael Tommasello, and Sonja Meyer
Chapter 13. The role of language in theory-of-mind development: What deaf children tell us., Peter A. de Villiers
Chapter 14. How language facilitates the acquisition of false-belief understanding in children with autism, Helen Tager-Flusberg and Robert M. Joseph
Chapter 15. Genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in language and theory of mind: Common or distinct?, Claire Hughes