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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. Semantic variationsand invariance: Cognitive issues; Diversity in Linguistic Representations A Challenge for Cognition; Cognitive Invariants and Linguistic Variability From Units to Utterance; Subjectivity, Invariance, and the Development of Forms in the Construction of Linguistic Representations; Language Evolution and Semantic Representations A Case Study of the Evolutionfrom "Subjectivity" to "Objectivity"in French.
- Part II. Conceptualization andrepresentations of spaceacross languagesSpatial Orientationin some Austronesian Languages; Language Space and Sociolect Cognitive Correlates of Gendered Speech in Mopan Maya; Localization and Predication Ancient Greek and various other Languages; The Expression of Spatial Relations and the Spatialization of Semantic Relations in French Sign Language; Part III. Language activity: From linguisticto cognitive processes; From Natural Language to Drum Language An Economical Encoding Procedure in Banda-Linda (Central African Republic).
- Electrical Signs of Language in the BrainLinguistic Variations and Cognitive Constraints in the Processing and the Acquisition of Language; Universal vs Language-Specific Constraints in Agrammatic Aphasia Is comparatism back?; Schizophasia and Cognitive Dysfunction; Index.