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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Indefrey, Peter,
• Gullberg, Marianne,

Titel

Time to speak : cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language

Ist Teil von

• Language Learning,

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, England : Blackwell Publishing,

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language; Contents; Foreword; Time in Language, Language in Time; Time in Language, Situation Models, and Mental Simulations; Simulation Semantics and the Linguistics of Time. Commentary on Zwaan; Processing Temporal Constraints: An ERP Study; Processing Temporal Constraints and Some Implications for the Investigation of Second Language Sentence Processing and Acquisition. Commentary on Baggio; Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought
• Nominal Tense. Time for Further Whorfian Adventures? Commentary on CasasantoTemporal Decentering and the Development of Temporal Concepts; Temporal Cognition and Temporal Language the First and Second Times Around. Commentary on McCormack and Hoerl; Time, Language, and Autobiographical Memory; How Semantic and Episodic Memory Contribute to Autobiographical Memory. Commentary on Burt; The Perception of Time: Basic Research and Some Potential Links to the Study of Language; Time in Agrammatic Aphasia. Commentary on Wearden; Neural Bases of Sequence Processing in Action and Language
• Sequential Event Processing: Domain Specificity or Task Specificity? Commentary on Carota and SiriguCognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language: Any Answers?; Author Index; Subject Index
• Time is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and action. All languages have developed rich means to express various facets of time, such as bare time spans, their position on the time line, or their duration. This volume explores what we know about the neural and cognitive representations of time that speakers can draw on in language. Considers the role time plays as an essential element of human cognition and action, providing important insights to inform and extend current studies of time in language and in language acquisitionExamines the main devices used to
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