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Concepts in the brain : the view from cross-linguistic diversity / David Kemmerer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kemmerer, David L., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive science.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Language acquisition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- There are roughly 6500 languages in the world, and they display numerous similarities and differences in the concepts that they encode. This text argues that cognitive neuroscientists must take these findings seriously if they are ever to achieve a truly comprehensive, pan-human account of the cortical underpinnings of semantic knowledge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-068264-7
- 0-19-068265-5
- 0-19-068263-9
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