Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language

1. Time in language, language in time (Wolfgang Klein).

2. Time in language, situation models, and mental simulations (Rolf A. Zwaan).

3. Simulation semantics and the linguistics of time. Commentary on Zwaan (Vyvyan Evans).

4. Processing temporal constraints: An ERP study (Giosuè Baggio).

5. Processing temporal constraints and some implications for the investigation of second language sentence processing and acquisition. Commentary on Baggio (Leah Roberts).

6. Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Cross-linguistic differences in temporal language and thought (Daniel Casasanto).

7. Nominal tense. Time for further Whorfian adventures? Commentary on Casasanto (Pieter Muysken).

8. Temporal decentering and the development of temporal concepts (Teresa McCormack & Christoph Hoerl).

9. Temporal cognition and temporal language the first and second times around. Commentary on McCormack and Hoerl (Nick C. Ellis).

10. Time, language and autobiographical memory (Christopher D. B. Burt)

11. How semantic and episodic memory contribute to autobiographical memory. Commentary on Burt (Indira Tendolkar).

12. The Perception of time: Basic research and some potential links to the study of language (John Wearden).

13. Time in agrammatic aphasia. Commentary on Wearden (Herman Kolk).

14. Neural bases of sequence processing in action and language (Francesca Carota & Angela Sirigu).

15. Sequential event processing: Domain specificity or task specificity? Commentary on Carota & Sirigu (Ivan Toni)

16. Cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language. Any answers?, (Marianne Gullberg & Peter Indefrey).

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