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Title

Language diversity and cognitive representations / edited by Catherine Fuchs, Stéphane Robert.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Penn : John Benjamins Pub., c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Fuchs, Catherine
• Robert, Stéphane

Description

x, 229 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Human cognitive processing v. 3.

Subject

• Language and languages > Variation
• Cognition
• Psycholinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Catherine Fuchs and Stephane Robert -- I. Semantic Variations and Invariance: Cognitive Issues. Diversity in linguistic representations: A challenge for cognition / Catherine Fuchs. Cognitive invariants and linguistic variability: From units to utterance / Stephane Robert. Subjectivity, invariance, and the development of forms in the construction of linguistic representations / Antoine Culioli. Language evolution and semantic representations: A case study of the evolution from "subjectivity" to "objectivity" in French / Christiane Marchello-Nizia -- II. Conceptualization and Representations of Space Across Languages. Spatial orientation in some Austronesian languages / Francoise Ozanne-Rivierre. Language space and sociolect: Cognitive correlates of gendered speech in Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger. Localization and predication: Ancient Greek and various other languages / Hansjakob Seiler. The expression of spatial relations and the spatialization of semantic relations in French Sign Language / Christian Cuxac -- III. Language Activity: from Linguistic to Cognitive Processes. From natural language to drum language: An economical encoding procedure in Banda-Linda, Central African Republic / France Cloarec-Heiss. Electrical signs of language in the brain / Marta Kutas and Mireille Besson. Linguistic variations and cognitive constraints in the processing and the acquisition of language / Michele Kail. Universal vs. language-specific constraints in agrammatic aphasia. Is comparatism back? / Jean-Luc Nespoulous. Schizophasia and cognitive dysfunction / Bernard Pachoud.

ISBN

1556192037 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99040994^

OCLC

41960030

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library