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Publication details [#31277]

Li, Peggy and Lila Gleitman. 2002. Turning the tables: language and spatial reasoning. Cognition 83 (3) : 265–294.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | language and thought | space deixis

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This paper discusses the influence of the lexical resources of individual languages on their users' spatial organization and reasoning styles, in terms of the current debate on the relation of language to thought.