Attitude verbs, such as think, want, and know, describe internal mental states that leave few
cues as to their meanings in the physical world. Consequently, their acquisition requires …

How do children learn the meanings of propositional attitude verbs? We argue that children
use information contained in both syntactic distribution and pragmatic function to zero in on …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 58 (9) of
Developmental Psychology (see record 2022-93094-001). In the article (https://doi …

This paper investigates how children figure out that modals like must can be used to express
both epistemic and “root”(ie non epistemic) flavors. The existing acquisition literature shows …

How should knowledge be analyzed? Compositionally, as having constituents like belief
and justification, or as an atomic concept? In making arguments for or against these …

Does language have a role to play in conceptual development, and if so, what is that role?
Understanding the contents of another person's mind parallels the development in early …

Propositional attitude verbs, such as think and want, have long held interest for both
theoretical linguists and language acquisitionists because their syntactic, semantic, and …

This study presents the validation analysis of the European Portuguese version of the
MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory III (CDI-III-PT). The CDI-III-PT is a …

Words have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their
acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and …

I argue that semantics is the study of the proprietary database of a centrally inaccessible and
informationally encapsulated input–output system. This system's role is to encode and …