RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Barnden, John A. YR 1996 T1 Unconscious gaps in Jackendoff 's "How language helps us think"? JF Pragmatics & Cognition VO 4 IS 1 SP 65 OP 80 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar PB John Benjamins SN 0929-0907, AB 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., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar