Still talking to ourselves after all these years: a review of current research on private speech / Dialogic thinking / The executive functions of language in preschool children / The neuropsychology of covert and overt speech: Implications for the study of private speech in children and adults / Talking and thinking: the role of speech in social understanding / Private speech and theory of mind: evidence for developing interfunctional relations / Development of communicative competence through private and inner speech / Private speech in the framework of referential communication / Preschool children's speech awareness and theory of speech / Young children's knowledge about overt and covert private speech / Private pointing and private speech: developing parallelisms / Symbols as tools in the development of executive function / On the persistence of private speech: empirical and theoretical considerations / Private speech beyond childhood: testing the developmental hypothesis / Private speech and motivation: the role of language in a sociocultural account of motivational processes / Creativity and private speech in young children / Early childhood teachers' awareness, beliefs, and practices toward children's private speech