{"product_id":"9781108844031","title":"Constituent Order in Language and Thought","description":"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.","brand":"Masatoshi Koizumi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47810366308670,"sku":"9781108844031","price":5095.5,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781108844031_920b4442-dde2-4eab-8f25-6adf97d6eb2a.jpg?v=1707410839","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781108844031","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}