Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

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 …

Recent years have seen a surge of experimental approaches to the study of natural
language meaning, both to obtain solid data on subtle phenomena that are hard to assess …

Henry Wellman and colleagues have provided evidence of a robust developmental
progression in theory-of-mind (or as we will say,“mindreading”) abilities, using verbal tasks …

Factive mental states, such as knowing or being aware, can only link an agent to the truth; by
contrast, nonfactive states, such as believing or thinking, can link an agent to either truths or …

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 …

In factive clausal embedding ([He knows [that it is warm outside]]), the embedded clause is
presupposed to be true. In non-factive embedding ([He thinks [that it is warm outside]]) there …

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

Nativists about theory of mind have typically explained why children below the age of four
fail the false belief task by appealing to the demands that these tasks place on children's …

This paper brings a developmental perspective to the discussion of a longstanding issue
surrounding the proper characterization of presuppositions. On an influential view (Stalnaker …