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Language and Space (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, Merrill F. Garrett is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The fifteen original contributions in Language and Space bring together the major lines of research and the most important theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, providing a much needed synthesis across these diverse domains. The study of the relationship between natural language and spatial cognition has the potential to yield answers to vexing questions about the nature of the mind, language, and culture. The fifteen original contributions in Language and Space bring together the major lines of research and the most important theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, providing a much needed synthesis across these diverse domains. Each chapter gives a clear up-to-date account of a particular research program. Overall, they address such questions as: how does the brain represent space, how many kinds of spatial representations are there, how do we learn to talk about space and what role does culture play in these matters, should experimental tests of the relations between space and language be restricted to closed-class linguistic elements or must the role of open-clas

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Author
Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, Merrill F. Garrett
Publisher
A Bradford Book
Published
1996
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262268806
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics
Updated
2026-03-24

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