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Spatial demonstratives in brain and behavior

2020-09-09

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<p>The vast majority of everyday social practices involves a form of joint interaction with the environment which relies on establishing a shared attentional focus (Tomasello, Carpenter, Call, Behne, & Moll, 2005). Languages mediate humans’ ability to coordinate attention via a specific class of words: spatial demonstratives. Words like the pronouns “this” or “that”, or the adverbs “here” and “there” are among...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fwsg5

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