36.2490, Books: Constituent Order in Language and Thought: Koizumi (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Constituent Order in Language and Thought: Koizumi (2025)


Title: Constituent Order in Language and Thought
Subtitle: A Case Study in Field-Based Psycholinguistics
Publication Year: 20250821

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/constituent-order-language-and-thought-case-study-field-based-psycholinguistics?format=PB&isbn=9781108926096

Author(s): Masatoshi Koizumi

Paperback ISBN:  9781108926096 Pages:  252 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781108926096 Pages:  252 Price: Europe EURO 26.83
Paperback ISBN:  9781108926096 Pages:  252 Price: U.S. $ 29.99

Abstract:

Traditionally, due to the availability of technology, psycholinguistic
research has focused mainly on Western languages. However, this focus
has recently shifted towards a more diverse range of languages, whose
structures often throw into question many previous assumptions in
syntactic theory and language processing. Based on a case study in
field-based comparative psycholinguistics, this pioneering book is the
first to explore the neurocognition of endangered
'object-before-subject' languages, such as Kaqchikel and Seediq. It
draws on a range of methods - including linguistic fieldwork,
theoretical linguistic analysis, corpus research, questionnaire
surveys, behavioural experiments, eye tracking, event-related brain
potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and near-infrared
spectroscopy – to consider preferred constituent orders in both
language and thought, examining comprehension as well as production.
In doing so, it highlights the importance of field-based
cross-linguistic cognitive neuroscientific research in uncovering
universal and language-particular aspects of the human language
faculty, and the interaction between language and thought.

Written In: English (eng)



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