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Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language: Any Answers?
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Gullberg, Marianne; Indefrey, Peter – Language Learning, 2008
In the position article to this volume, Klein outlines a set of questions that are relevant for furthering the linguist's understanding of what the cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language might be. He also declares a certain skepticism regarding the likelihood that new methods from other disciplines will provide answers to those…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prerequisites, Interdisciplinary Approach, Time Factors (Learning)
Temporal Cognition and Temporal Language the First and Second Times around. Commentary on McCormack and Hoerl
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2008
McCormack and Hoerl's state of the art review of the development of temporal concepts from the end of infancy to the end of the fifth year shows that young children's conception of time is quite different from that of adults. Adults and 5-year-old children can construe an event from a range of temporal perspectives and can describe it from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Verbs, Child Language