Recent Papers

Roeper,T. & de Villiers, J.G. (1994) Lexical links in the Wh-chain. In B.Lust, G.Hermon & J. Kornfilt (eds) Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspectives Volume II: Binding, dependencies and learnability. Lawrence Erlbaum.

de Villiers, J.G. (1995) Empty categories and complex sentences: the case of wh-questions. In P. Fletcher and B. MacWhinney (eds) Handbook of Language Acquisition. Blackwells.

de Villiers, J. G. (1995) Questioning minds and answering machines. In D. MacLaughlin and Susan McEwen (eds) Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla press.

Gale, E., de Villiers, P., de Villiers, J. & Pyers, J. (1996) Language and theory of mind in oral deaf children. in A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, and A. Zukowski (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 1, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

de Villiers, J.G. & Pyers, J. (1997) Complementing cognition: the relationship between language and theory of mind. In Proceedings of the 21st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

de Villiers, J.G. (1998) Mind Matters. In Peter Rose (ed) Professorial Passions.

de Villiers, J.G., Curran, L., Philip, W. & DeMunn, H. (1998). Acquisition of the quantificational properties of mental predicates. In: Proceedings of the 22nd annual Boston University conference on Language development. Cascadilla press.

de Villiers. J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. (1999) Language development. Chapter in M. Bornstein and M. Lamb (eds) Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook. (second edition) Lawrence Erlbaum.

de Villiers, J.G. (1999) On acquiring the structural representations for false

complements. In B. Hollebrandse (ed) New perspectives on language acquisition, University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics. GLSA.

Abdulkarim, L., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. G. (1999) Negative islands in

language acquisition.In B. Hollebrandse (ed) New perspectives on language acquisition, University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics. GLSA.

de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. (in press) Linguistic determinism and

false belief. In P. Mitchell & K. Riggs (eds) Children's Reasoning

and the Mind. Hove,U.K.: Psychology Press.

de Villiers. J.G. (in press) Language and Theory of mind: what is the

developmental relationship? In Baron-Cohen, S., Tager-Flusberg,

H. & Cohen, D. (eds) Understanding other minds:

perspectives from autism and developmental cognitive neuroscience. Cambridge University press.

 

 

 

 

Recent presentations

Questioning minds and answering machines Invited Plenary address, Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 1994.

Experimental philosophy: why children think opaque containers are referentially transparent. Sigma Xi luncheon talk, Smith College, November 1994

Steps in the mastery of sentence complements. Symposium on Language and Theory of Mind, SRCD, Indianapolis, April, 1995.

Language, reference and truth: the child's developing consciousness of other minds. With Stanka Fitneva. Presented at Conference on Language and Consciousness, Varna, Bulgaria, Sept 1995.

Mind Matters. Invited lecture in series Professorial Passions, Smith College, October 1995.

Language and Theory of mind in ASL. With Elaine Gale, Jenny Pyers and Peter de Villiers. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on language development, November 1995.

Language for thought. Invited address, Lehigh Valley Undergraduate conference in psychology, Lehigh University, PA. April 1996.

On the role of language in the development of propositional attitudes. With Stanka Fitneva. In workshop,"The role of language in event understanding", VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-20 July 1996.

Complementing cognition: the relationship between language and theory of mind. With Jennie Pyers. Paper presented at the 21st annual Boston University conference on language development, November, 1996.

On reading minds and predicting action. With Jennie Pyers. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C, April 1997.

Linguistic determinism and theory of mind. With Peter de Villiers. Paper presented in symposium on Theoretical approaches to language acquisition, at the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C, April 1997.

On acquiring the structural representations for false complements. U.Mass conference on New Perspectives on Acquisition, June 1997.

Do complements open possible worlds? The view from language acquisition. Linguistic Society of Southern Africa, Durban, SA, July 1997.

A longitudinal study of referential opacity. Paper presented at 22nd annual Boston University conference on Language development, November 1997 (With Jennie Pyers and Kimberly Broderick).

Acquisition of the quantificational properties of mental predicates.Boston University conference on Language development, Boston, November, 1997 (With Heather deMunn, Laramie Curran and Bill Philip).

Language for thought: false complements and false beliefs.Whither Whorf conference,

With Peter de Villiers, Northwestern University, June 29,1998

What’s opaque to children? Paper presented at the U.Conn/Umass mini-conference

on Language Acquisition, October 1998, U.Mass, Amherst.

de Villiers,J.G. (October 1998) Breakout session: language and theory of mind. 13th

annual conference on Issues in Language and Deafness, Boystown, Omaha,NB.

de Villiers, J.G. (April 1999) Symposium organizer and discussant, Can language drive

conceptual change? Society for Research in Child Development,

Albuquerque,N.M.

de Villiers. J. G., Segal, G.,Broderick, K. & Feldman, J. (April 1999) A developmental

study of the referential opacity of desire versus belief. Poster presented at the

Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque,N.M.

Schafer, R. & de Villiers, J. (1999) Imagining Articles: What a and the can tell us about the

Emergence of DP. Paper presented at the U.Conn/U.Mass workshop on Acquisition, Storrs, CT.,May.

de Villiers,J.G. (1999) Extension, intension and other minds. Paper in Symposium:

Language Acquisition, Point of View, and Possible Worlds. IASCL, San Sebastian, Spain, July.

de Villiers,J.G. & Fitneva, S. (1999) From seeing to believing: can language provide the bridge? Paper presented at IASCL, San Sebastian, Spain, July.

Allen, B., de Villiers, J.G. & Francois, S. (1999) Paper in Symposium:

Language Acquisition, Point of View, and Possible Worlds. IASCL, San Sebastian, Spain, July.

Hollebrandse, B., Roeper, T & de Villiers, J.G. Sequence of Tense in Dutch and English. Poster presented at IASCL, San Sebastian, Spain, July.

 

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