Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

The extreme version of the Whorfian hypothesis—that the language we learn determines
how we view the world—has been soundly rejected by linguists and psychologists alike …

Spatial language incorporates descriptions of locations, routes, and landscapes, and is used
by humans daily. Research has addressed a wide range of aspects of spatial language …

CrossLInguIstIC aPProaChes to the PsyChoLogy of Language arguments, but our
conversations roamed increasingly over a wide range of other topics—travel, anthropology …

Spatial demonstratives–terms including this and that–are among the most common words
across all languages. Yet, there are considerable differences between languages in how …

In this article, I revisit Landau and Jackendoff's () paper,“What and where in spatial language
and spatial cognition,” proposing a friendly amendment and reformulation. The original …

For more than thirty years now Cognitive Linguists have striven to drift away from
generativist attempts to explain linguistic patterns as internal to language. Their endeavours …

Structural priming offers a powerful method for experimentally investigating the mental
representation of linguistic structure. We clarify the nature of our proposal, justify the …

This volume covers state-of-the-art research in the field of crosslinguistic approaches to the
psychology of language. The forty chapters cover a wide range of topics that represent the …

To study concepts, cognitive scientists need to be able to identify them. The prevailing
assumption has been that general-purpose, nonlinguistic concepts are revealed by words …