Indefrey / Gullberg Time to Speak

Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0965-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, E-Book

Time is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and action. Alllanguages have developed rich means to express various facets oftime, such as bare time spans, their position on the time line, ortheir duration. This volume explores what we know about the neuraland cognitive representations of time that speakers can draw on inlanguage.
* Considers the role time plays as an essential element of humancognition and action, providing important insights to inform andextend current studies of time in language and in languageacquisition
* Examines the main devices used to encode time in naturallanguage, such as lexical elements, tense, and aspect, and draws onthe latest psychological and neurobiological findings
* Addresses a range of issues, including: the relationshipbetween temporal language, culture, and thought; the relationshipbetween verb aspect and mental simulations of events; thedevelopment of temporal concepts; time perception; the storage andretrieval of temporal information in autobiographical memory; andneural correlates of tense processing and sequence planning

Autoren/Hrsg.

Indefrey, Peter

Gullberg, Marianne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
1. Time in language, language in time (WolfgangKlein).
2. Time in language, situation models, and mental simulations(Rolf A. Zwaan).
3. Simulation semantics and the linguistics of time. Commentaryon Zwaan (Vyvyan Evans).
4. Processing temporal constraints: An ERP study (GiosuèBaggio).
5. Processing temporal constraints and some implications for theinvestigation of second language sentence processing andacquisition. Commentary on Baggio (Leah Roberts).
6. Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Cross-linguisticdifferences in temporal language and thought (DanielCasasanto).
7. Nominal tense. Time for further Whorfian adventures?Commentary on Casasanto (Pieter Muysken).
8. Temporal decentering and the development of temporal concepts(Teresa McCormack & Christoph Hoerl).
9. Temporal cognition and temporal language the first and secondtimes around. Commentary on McCormack and Hoerl (Nick C.Ellis).
10. Time, language and autobiographical memory(Christopher D. B. Burt)
11. How semantic and episodic memory contribute toautobiographical memory. Commentary on Burt (IndiraTendolkar).
12. The Perception of time: Basic research and some potentiallinks to the study of language (John Wearden).
13. Time in agrammatic aphasia. Commentary on Wearden(Herman Kolk).
14. Neural bases of sequence processing in action and language(Francesca Carota & Angela Sirigu).
15. Sequential event processing: Domain specificity or taskspecificity? Commentary on Carota & Sirigu (IvanToni)
16. Cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language. Anyanswers?, (Marianne Gullberg & Peter Indefrey).
Author index.
Subject index.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Indefrey is Principal Investigator at the F.C. DondersCentre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen and a ResearchAssociate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He hasa M.D. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Heinrich HeineUniversity Düsseldorf. His research is on first and secondlanguage processing and its neural correlates with a particularfocus on syntactic and morphological processing, word production,reading, and the development of language processing in L2 learners.
Marianne Gullberg is a staff member at RadboudUniversity Nijmegen and Research Associate at the Max PlanckInstitute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She holds a Ph.D. inLinguistics from Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses onthe earliest stages of adult second language acquisition and on theadvanced or bilingual stage, lexical semantics, cross-linguistic(bi-directional) influences, code-switching, and the production andcomprehension of gestures.