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What language is “mentalese”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Dan I. Slobin
Dan I. Slobin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 slobin@socrates.berkeley.edu http://ihd.berkeley.edu
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Abstract

Carruthers’ “mentalese expressions” take the form of English sentences, thus suggesting an isomorphism between thought and language that ignores linguistic diversity. Furthermore, complex syntax is not the only linguistic means of combining information from various domain-specific modules into domain-general expressions, nor is such syntax the preferred means of encoding basic experiences in all languages. The analysis seems to rest on an unacknowledged version of linguistic determinism.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , December 2002 , pp. 700 - 701
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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