Cognition and Sentence Production : a Cross-Linguistic Study /
This book presents the findings of a major cross-linguistic experiment in sentence production, involving 10 languages from around the world. It demonstrates that many aspects of language (including word- and clause- order, topicalization, spatial deixis, referential elaboration, among others) are go...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1988.
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| Series: | Springer series in language and communication ;
22. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book presents the findings of a major cross-linguistic experiment in sentence production, involving 10 languages from around the world. It demonstrates that many aspects of language (including word- and clause- order, topicalization, spatial deixis, referential elaboration, among others) are governed by universal cognitive principles of perception, attention, and communication. The findings of this study, based on a linguistically sophisticated psychological theory and a careful, extensive experimental design, bear on such important issues as the bases of linguistic universals, functionalist theories of language, the relationship between language and thought, and the psychological reality of pragmatic (communicative) principles. This book should therefore be of interest to researchers in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy of language, anthropology, and communication. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 118 pages 6 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9781461245681 (electronic bk.) 1461245680 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0172-620X ; |