Publications

Publication details [#31431]

Bloom, Paul. 2002. Mindreading, Communication and the Learning of Names for Things. Mind & Language 17 (1-2) : 37–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

early childhood | inference | meaning, L1-acquisition of | mental state

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0268-1064

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/mila

Annotation

This paper deals with children's mindreading capacity underlying word learning, suggesting that this ability might be due to a more general capacity to infer mental states.