Space and language in Williams syndrome: insights from typical development
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Language and Cognition: Insights From Williams Syndrome
What is the relation between spatial language and spatial cognition? Is the way we talk about space based on our non-linguistic spatial representations? Presently, there are at least two major hypotheses about the nature of this relation. On the one hand, there is a cognitive hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, spatial language is grounded on spatial cognition. Our non-linguistic spatial ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1939-5078
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1258