Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original multimodal approach, covering various aspects of cross-linguistic variation, differences between spoken, signed and drum languages, between normal speech and pathological speech, and also between language and music, as revealed in electric brain activity associated with language processing.
The various contributions (linguistic, anthropological, psychological and neurophysical) on the nature and status of variation and invariants in language provides evidence for complex interactions between language-specific processes and general cognitive faculties. This overview of some recent trends in cognitive linguistics opens up a promising new research area in the humanities as well as in the cognitive sciences.
| ISBN: | 9789027223555 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 1999 |
| Author: | Catherine Fuchs, Stéphane Robert |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Series: | Human Cognitive Processing |
| Genres: |
Psychology |
Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial.
Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations features in the following genres: Psychology
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Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations was written by Catherine Fuchs, Stéphane Robert and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations has 229 pages
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