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Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Stéphane Robert
[Human Cognitive Processing 3] 1999
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introductionvii
I: Semantic Variations and Invariance: Cognitive Issues1
Diversity in linguistic representations: A challenge for cognition3
Cognitive invariants and linguistic variability: From units to utterance21
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Subjectivity, invariance, and the development of forms in the construction of linguistic representations37
Language evolution and semantic representations: A case study of the evolution from “subjectivity” to “objectivity” in French53
II: Conceptualization and Representations of Space across Languages71
Spatial orientation in some Austronesian languages73
Language space and sociolect: Cognitive correlates of gendere speech in Mopan Maya85
Localization and predication: Ancient geek and various other languages107
The expression of spatial relations and the spatialization of semantic relations in French Sign Language123
III: Language Activity: From Linguistic to Cognitive Processes143
From natural language to drum language: An economical encoding procedure in Banda-Linda, Central African Republic145
Electrical signs of language in the brain159
Linguistic variations and cognitive constraints in the processing and acquisition of language179
Universal vs. language-specific constraints in agrammatic aphasia. Is comparatism back?195
Schizophasia and cognitive dysfunction209
Index221
Subject index221
Author index225
Language index228


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