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1. Introduction: Why Language Matters; 2. Language pathways into thecommunity of minds; 3. Communication, relationships, and individualdifferences in children's understanding of mind; 4. Conversation, pretenceand theory of mind; 5. Talking about "new" information: the given/newdistinction and children's developing theory of mind; 6. The developmentalorigins of meaning for mental terms; 7. Language promotes structuralalignment in the acquisition of mentalistic concepts; 8. Language and thedevelopment of cognitive flexibility: Implications for theory of mind; 9.Representational development and false-belief understanding; 10. Can languageacquisition give children a point of view?; 11. What does "that" have to dowith point of view? Conflicting desires and "want" in German; 12. Linguisticcommunication and social understanding; 13. The role of language intheory-of-mind development: What deaf children tell us; 14. How languagefacilitates the acquisition of false-belief understanding in children withautism; 15. Genetic and environmental influences on individual differences inlanguage and theory of mind: Common or distinct?