There are different ways of reporting what someone else has\n said. Common forms of speech reports a re direct speech (Mary\n said 'I am sick') an d indirect speech (Mary said that she is\n si ck). Pretense and role play are closely related\n phenomena. Like in direct speech, someone eng aging in role play\n adopts the perspective o f another person and produces utterances\n fr om that shifted standpoint (I am sick). Another in teresting\n parallel is that children start t o use speech reports and to\n engage in role play at around the same time, namely at two to\n three years of age. This is well before they p ass standard false\n belief tests (at around four) which are often taken to be the\n hallm ark of Theory of Mind and metarepresentation. Sinc e at\n least some forms of reported speech ex hibit recursion,\n intensionality, and/or cla usal embedding, this developmental gap\n may shed new light on the debate over the relationship between\n Theory of Mind and the syntax/sema ntics of recursive\n embedding. The aim of th e conference is to discuss the cognitive\n an d conceptual relationship of reported speech, pret ense and\n cognitive abilities such as perspe ctive-taking,\n metarepresentation and Theory of Mind.\n
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\nWe i nvite authors to submit an anonymous two-page abst ract by 1 December,\n 2013, for a talk of 2 0 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion or a poster.\ n We welcome theoretically and\n emp irically oriented contributions addressing some of the conference's topics\n of interest from the perspectives of (psycho)linguistics, philosop hy,\n psychology or semantics.\n
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