%0 Journal Article %A Barnden, John A. %T Unconscious gaps in Jackendoff 's "How language helps us think"? %D 1996 %J Pragmatics & Cognition %V 4 %N 1 %P 65-80 %@ 0929-0907 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar %I John Benjamins %X Jackendoff comes to some appealing overall conclusions, but several of his assumptions and arguments are questionable. The present commentary points out the following problems: oversimplifications in the translation-based argument for the independence of language and thought; a lack of consideration of the possibility of unconscious use of internalized natural languages; insufficient consideration of possible characteristics of languages of thought (as opposed to internalized natural languages); neglect of the possibility of thinking in example-oriented and metaphorical ways; unfair bias in contrasting visual to linguistic imagery; neglect of other types of imagery; and neglect of the possibility of unconscious attentional processes. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar