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Nature 430, 410-411 (22 July 2004) | doi:10.1038/430410a; Published online 21 July 2004
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Language: Children think before they speak
Paul Bloom1
Abstract
A linguistic contrast between English and Korean provides a telling test of different ideas about whether thought precedes the acquisition of language, or whether certain concepts are language-specific.
In his autobiography, written in the fourth century AD, Saint Augustine1 described how he learned to talk: "By constantly hearing words, as they occurred in various sentences, I collected gradually for what they stood, and having broken in my mouth to these signs, I thereby gave utterance to my will." For Augustine, thought precedes language: language is a tool with which to express one's ideas and to understand the ideas of others.
- Paul Bloom is in the Department of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 208205, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8205, USA.
e-mail: Email: paul.bloom@yale.edu
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