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Author Fuchs, Catherine

Title Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Series Human Cognitive Processing Ser. No. 3
Human Cognitive Processing Ser. ; no. 3
Contents 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
Summary 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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Subject Language and languages -- Variation.
Cognition.
Psycholinguistics.
Cognition
Psycholinguistics
cognition.
psycholinguistics.
Cognition
Language and languages -- Variation
Psycholinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Robert, Stéphane
LC no. 99040994
ISBN 9789027284501
9027284504
9789027223555
9027223556
1283121654
9781283121651
9786613121653
6613121657