LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Research Question
18 Dec 2017
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At what age are kids able to understand things from other people"s perspective: some areas in language might require this ability. Depending on the structure we can determine the meaning of the words: attributing intentions and goals is essential for language because often times in speech we are vague and use incomplete sentences. Our ability to infer meaning happens so fast that we don"t even notice it. Or that it is warm and nice outside (instead of -10 degrees). Or assuming there is an apple in a box when the box is empty: a false belief is believing something that isn"t true. A true belief is believing something that is true. If you can attribute a false belief to someone else, you can gather that their state of mind is different than their own. It"s tricky to separate what you know from what max knows.
