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Publication details [#6148]

Levelt, Willem J.M. 1982. Cognitive styles in the use of spatial direction terms. In Jarvella, Robert J. and Wolfgang H. Klein, eds. Speech, place, and action. J. Wiley. pp. 251–268.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive style | idiolect | individual differences in processing | space deixis, processing of

Annotation

Report on an experiment providing strong evidence that systematic individual differences exist in the use of deictical terms, which are not so much due to superficial variations in idiolect, but rather to differences in the way people operate on spatial information.