Semantics between cognitive neuroscience and linguistic theory: Guest editors' introduction

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1297-1316

  Hinzen, Wolfram ^a   Poeppel, David ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compositionality; Conceptual structure; Deixis; Semantics broad and narrow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858018287     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.568226     Document Type: Article

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