Mindful storytellers: Emerging pragmatics and theory of mind development

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Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs (2022, background): “As discussed in §2, pragmatics provides a connection between language development and Theory of Mind (Sperber and Wilson, 1986; Miller, 2006; Tauzin and Gergely, 2018): learning to communicate effectively with language requires reasoning about what our interlocutor knows or does not know (Grice, 197”
Individual Differences in Children’s Pragmatic Ability: A Review of Associations with Formal Language, Social Cognition, and Executive Functions (2018, background): “Fernández (2013) found no correlation between any of four measures of narrative quality and first-order ToM scores (perhaps due to a ceiling effect on the latter) but did observe a medium correlation with second-order ToM and narrative coherence.”
Maternal reminiscing, elaborative talk, and children’s theory of mind: An intervention study (2013, background): “One set of explanations for why language impacts the development of theory of mind focuses on the interrelation between children’s language skills and the development of such skills for interpreting and understanding the representational nature of conversations about mental states (Farrar & Maag, 20”