Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems

TL;DR: Negation strategies in Australian languages vary significantly with respect to clausal, imperative, and nominal negation. The chapter explores interactions between negation and other linguistic features.

TL;DR: Suppletion in Australian languages is widespread across various grammatical categories, including tense, aspect, mood, number, posture, motion, pronominal, demonstrative, possessive, and nominals.

TL;DR: The chapter presents an overview of adjectives and adverbs in Australian languages, summarizing criteria for distinguishing them and categorizing adjectives as nouns or a subtype of the 'nominal' category. It also discusses adverbs and their forms, relative word orders, and semantic categories.

TL;DR: Noongar is a historical dialect of the Noongar language from Australia’s far south-west. Traditional Noongar is distinct from contemporary Noongar. The chapter covers phonology, dialectology, morphology, syntax, and basic clausal syntax.

TL;DR: This article showed that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions, and that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the systems available in the local language.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the child acquires English spatial expressions by learning how to apply them to the child's prior knowledge about space and that the children acquire English temporal expressions in turn by extending the spatial terms in a metaphor about time, suggesting a complete cognitive system that space and time expressions have in common.

TL;DR: This paper favors a model where holistic processing of a face includes some or all of the interrelations between features and has separate coding for features, and proposes the use of moving faces as a way of clarifying what types of information are included in the holistic representation of a faces.