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The role of language in theory of mind development: What deaf children tell us
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January 2005

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... On one hand, the emergence of ToM enables language development at an early age (Nelson, 2005); on the other hand, language skills (in terms of lexicon, morphosyntax, and pragmatics) promote ToM abilities (Harris et al., 2005;Milligan et al., 2007;Durrleman et al., 2022b), as indicated by children's performance in FB ToM tasks. More specifically, language ability, including vocabulary and morpho-syntactic skills, has been shown to be a powerful predictor of ToM performance in neurotypical children (de Villiers and de Villiers, 2014). In particular, syntax seems to be a significant component in the attribution of beliefs and the development of ToM; especially, embedded syntax [e.g., Sally thinks (that the ball is in the basket)], which is also often used in FB tests, mostly due to the inclusion of verbs that reflect beliefs or mental states of the agent in the main clause (de Villiers and de Villiers, 2009). ...

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