Children's theories of mind and language: a chicken or egg problem?

Teorías infantiles de la mente y lenguaje: ¿un problema de huevo o gallina?

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Milton Eduardo Bermúdez Jaimes
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Problematic that it defines this article is concentrated in trying to explore and to characterize the existing relations between the development of the Children’s Theories of the Mind (ToM) and the development of the language. Conceptually, the proposal in particular registers within the thematic area of the Social Cognition and individual of the Children’s Theories of the Mind.In the investigations of the last decades, the classic task of false the beliefs has been taken indicating from the possession of a Theory of the Mind to the 4 years, moment for which, in the child a radical change in the understanding of the mind is pronounced. In this paper the findings of the studies are discussed that tie ToM and language and proposes a ampler context to analyze the data of more recent studies.

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