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Linguistic meanings in mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2023

Alexis Wellwood Open the ORCID record for Alexis Wellwood [Opens in a new window]  and
Tim Hunter
Alexis Wellwood
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School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA wellwood@usc.edu, https://semantics.land
Tim Hunter
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA timhunter@ucla.edu, https://timhunter.humspace.ucla.edu/
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Abstract

The target article focuses on evidence from nonlinguistic faculties to defend the claim that cognition generally traffics in language-of-thought (LoT)-type representations. This focus creates needed space to discuss the mounting accumulation of nonclassical evidence for LoT, but it also misses relevant work in linguistics that directly offers a perspective on specific hypotheses about candidate LoT representations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e289
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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