Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in LanguageISBN: 978-1-4051-8581-3
Paperback
238 pages
December 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.
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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
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Examines the main devices used to encode time in natural language, such as lexical elements, tense, and aspect, and draws on the latest psychological and neurobiological findings
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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