Constituent order in language and thought : a case study in field-based psycholinguistics
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Constituent order in language and thought : a case study in field-based psycholinguistics
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : hardback
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-224) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Traditionally, due to the availability of technology, psycholinguistic research has focused mainly on Western languages. However, this focus has recently shifted towards a more diverse range of languages, whose structures often throw into question many previous assumptions in syntactic theory and language processing. Based on a case study in field-based comparative psycholinguistics, this pioneering book is the first to explore the neurocognition of endangered 'object-before-subject' languages, such as Kaqchikel and Seediq. It draws on a range of methods - including linguistic fieldwork, theoretical linguistic analysis, corpus research, questionnaire surveys, behavioural experiments, eye tracking, event-related brain potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and near-infrared spectroscopy - to consider preferred constituent orders in both language and thought, examining comprehension as well as production. In doing so, it highlights the importance of field-based cross-linguistic cognitive neuroscientific research in uncovering universal and language-particular aspects of the human language faculty, and the interaction between language and thought.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Kaqchikel Mayan
- 3. Word order preference in sentence comprehension I: behavioral studies
- 4. Word order preference in sentence comprehension II: fMRI studies
- 5. Word order preference in sentence comprehension III: ERP studies without context
- 6. Word order preference in sentence comprehension IV: ERP studies with context
- 7. Basic word order in language and natural order of thought
- 8. Constituent order preference in event representation
- 9. Word order preference in sentence production I: production frequency
- 10. Word order preference in sentence production II: time course and cognitive load
- 11. Grammatical processing and event apprehension
- 12. Syntactic structure of Kaqchikel revisited
- 13. Syntax and processing load
- 14. Concluding remarks
- Appendix A: spatial frames of reference of Kaqchikel speakers
- Appendix B: syntax and processing in Seediq: a behavioral study.
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