Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization
Edited by Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 8] 1993. 207 pp.
Eric Pederson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eric Pederson plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
2018 Teasing apart listener-sensitivity: The role of interaction Gesture 17:1, pp. 65–97 | Article
Using a repetition paradigm, in which speakers describe the same event to a sequence of listeners, we analyze the degree of reduction in representational gestures. We find that when listener feedback, both verbal and non-verbal, is minimal and unvarying, speakers steadily reduce their motoric… read more
2011 Review of Anderson (2008): The Munda Languages Studies in Language 35:4, pp. 960–969 | Review
2009 Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 391–404 | Article
We tested whether the speaker’s communicative intent drives the selection of grammatical constructions. Participants viewed complex human action video stimuli and were asked to respond in detail to a single question for each video concerning either what had happened (eliciting descriptions) or why… read more
2007 Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 57–77 | Article
Flege’s Speech Learning Model posits that adult second language learners retain the abilities of child learners for the perception and formation of novel phonetic categories. For novel categories to be formed, learners must discern at least some of the phonetic differences between the novel L2 and… read more
2003 Mirror-image discrimination among nonliterate, monoliterate, and biliterate Tamil subjects Written Language & Literacy 6:1, pp. 71–91 | Miscellaneous
In Danziger & Pederson 1998, the suggestion was made that the discrimination of left/right mirror images from non-reflected images in a part/whole judgment task correlates not just with degree of literacy, but also with the nature of the script in wich the subject is literate. This follow-up study… read more
1998 Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror-Image Discrimination Written Language & Literacy 1:2, pp. 153–169 | Article
A part/whole judgment task was administered to adults in ten different language communities around the world. Participants were instructed to treat two-dimensional abstract line figures differently from the left/right mirror-image reflections of the same figures. The data support the proposal that… read more
1993 Introduction Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization, Nuyts, Jan and Eric Pederson (eds.), pp. 7–8 | Miscellaneous