Introduction : opening up options / Thought before language : the expression of motion events prior to the impact of a conventional language model / Prerequisites for language acquisition : evidence from cases of anomalous language development / Some thoughts about the evolution of LADS, with special reference to TOM and SAM / Thinking in language? evolution and a modularist possibility / Aphasic language, aphasic thought : an investigation of propositional thinking in an a-propositional aphasic / Representing representations / Magic words : how language augments human computation / MAPSping between the mental and the public lexicon / Convention-based semantics and the development of language / Language, thought and the language of thought (Aunty's own argument revisited) / Natural language and virtual belief / Meta-intentional nature of executive functions and theory of mind / Reflections on language and mind