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Coventry, Kenny R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2591-7723 and Diessel, Holger
(2024)
Spatial communication systems and action.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
ISSN 1364-6613
Abstract
Spatial cognition is fundamental to our species. One might therefore expect that spatial communication systems would have evolved to make common distinctions. However, many have argued that spatial communication systems exhibit considerable cross-linguistic diversity, challenging the view that space structures language. We review recent work on spatial communication that merits revisiting the relationship between language and space. We provide a framework that places action as the driver of spatial communication systems across languages, in which spatial demonstratives – the earliest spatial terms – play a fundamental role in honing attention and theory of mind capacities that are crucial for language and cognition more broadly. We discuss how demonstratives emerged early in language evolution to serve a combination of spatial, social, and functional needs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This research was supported by EU Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action grant 676063 (DCOMM) to K.R.C. and colleagues. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | action,diversity,language evolution,spatial communication,neuropsychology and physiological psychology,experimental and cognitive psychology,cognitive neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3206 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2024 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2024 13:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97452 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.002 |
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