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Language is not a gadget

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2019

Peter Ford Dominey Open the ORCID record for Peter Ford Dominey [Opens in a new window]
Peter Ford Dominey*
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INSERM U1093 Cognition, Action and Sensorimotor Plasticity, Université de Bourgogne, UFR Staps, BP 27877, 21078 Dijon, France. peter.dominey@inserm.fr
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Abstract

Heyes does well to argue that some of the apparently innate human capabilities for cultural learning can be considered in terms of more general-purpose mechanisms. In the application of this to language, she overlooks some of its most interesting properties. I review three, and then illustrate how mindreading can come from general-purpose mechanism via language.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e175
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