Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations.
Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original mu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1999.
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Colección: | Human Cognitive Processing Ser. ;
no. 3. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original multimodal approach, covering various aspects of cross-linguistic variation, differences between spoken, signed and drum languages, between normal speech and pathological speech, and also between language and music, as revealed in electric brain activity associated with language processing. The variou. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027284501 9027284504 9789027223555 9027223556 1283121654 9781283121651 9786613121653 6613121657 |