Language, Communication and Cognition
International Conference: August 4th-7th 2008
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Linguistic relativity: evidence and methods...
Daniel Casasanto (Stanford University): Testing Whorf without words.
Caitlin Fausey & Lera Boroditsky (Stanford University): Oops! Describing and remembering accidental agents in English, Spanish and Japanese.
Eve Danziger(University of Virginia): Theories of mind: Representation, reflection and relativity across cultures.
Lisa Irmen (University of Heidelberg): How formal and conceptual cues of language lead to representations of gender.
Henriette Hendriks (University of Cambridge), Maya Hickmann (CNRS & Université Paris VIII), Annie-Claude Demagny (CNRS & Université Paris VIII) & Anna-Katharina Ochsenbauer(Université Paris VIII & Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich): Caused motion in first and second language acquisition: evidence for typological constraints in French and English.
Ayhan Aksu-Koc & Hale Ogel (Yeditepe University & Bogazici University) & Tina Hickey (Istanbul Bilgi University): Evidentiality marking and its relation to cognition.
Lera Boroditsky (Stanford University) and Dan Slobin (UC Berkeley): Theme session discussion.