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#775 Charles Fernyhough: Inner Speech, Imaginary Companions, and Auditory Hallucinations

The Dissenter

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The Role of Language in Children's Development

Vigotsky saw children as moving through these three main phases from social speech where they're talking to other people using words to interact with others. Through to a phase that we call private speech, through interphase we call inner speech. Vigotsky used the image of language going underground, becoming completely internalised, becoming completely silent. That's really where inner speech comes from - gradual process over childhood internalisation. And do we know how early in development children start showing this capacity?

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