ABSTRACT
One of the basic cognitive capacities of human beings is that of making and understanding judgments, that is, utterances that assert (or deny) something about something else. The realization of this capacity is intimately bound up with symbolization and especially with linguistic representation: so much so, in fact, that some have maintained that there cannot be judgments in the absence of speech while others have contended that vocalizations only become speech when such vocal utterances are in the service of the expression of judgments. 1
