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Originally Posted by TimMason
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And even if we do things *by ourselves*, that doesn't mean there is no linguistic account - remember the child who talks her doll through a tea party or putting her shoes on. When I do something for the first time - play a new piece of music on the piano, for example, I think I talk myself through it. As I get better, there's less vocalization, and in the end, I can do it without even looking at the marks on the page.
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I think I tend to visualise - or "physicalise" myself through something. I might read a recipe, but I turn it into images in my mind - or I practise movements. I look for spices in my cupboard based on their relative placement as I remember it, and their colour and looks. I could probably vocalise it, but in my mind it's pictures and movements - at the most, it's language as in a whole scene taken in at once compared to a paragraph. That's also a kind of language of course, but I wonder if it's what's meant by declarative knowledge.