To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective
languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such …

Der enge Zusammenhang von sprachlichen Kompetenzen und fachlichem Lernen ist
empirisch gut belegt. Ebenfalls umfassend untersucht und beschrieben sind die vielfältigen …

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of
thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

Learning to use language in an adult-like way is a long-lasting process. This may
particularly apply to complex conceptual domains such as emotions. The present study …

Positive associations between children's general language skills and emotion
understanding are well documented. Concurrently, research from other domains highlights …

We examined first language (L1) naming of common household objects in three groups of
Russian–English bilinguals: early, childhood and late bilinguals. Their naming patterns were …

There is still much debate about the nature of the experiential and maturational changes that
take place during childhood to bring about the sophisticated language abilities of an adult …

Bilinguals' lexical map**s for their two languages have been found to converge toward a
common naming pattern. The present paper investigates in more detail how semantic …