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Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language
Peter Indefrey
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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Indefrey, Peter; Gullberg, Marianne. Series: Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series. Num Pages: 238 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: CFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
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.
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 acquisition
- Examines the main devices used to encode time in ... Read more
- Addresses a range of issues, including: the relationship between temporal language, culture, and thought; the relationship between verb aspect and mental simulations of events; the development of temporal concepts; time perception; the storage and retrieval of temporal information in autobiographical memory; and neural correlates of tense processing and sequence planning
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Series
Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405185813
SKU
V9781405185813
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About Peter Indefrey
Peter Indefrey is Principal Investigator at the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen and a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He has a M.D. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. His research is on first and second language processing and its neural correlates with a particular focus on syntactic ... Read more
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