Book contents
- The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
- The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Methods
- Part I Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-Specific Conceptualizations?
- 4 State of the Art
- 5 Space
- 6 Time
- Part II Are Bilinguals Confronted with High Cognitive Costs?
- Part III Conclusions
- Glossary
- Appendix Research Participant Consent Form
- References
- Index
6 - Time
from Part I - Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-Specific Conceptualizations?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021
Book contents
- The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
- The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Methods
- Part I Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-Specific Conceptualizations?
- 4 State of the Art
- 5 Space
- 6 Time
- Part II Are Bilinguals Confronted with High Cognitive Costs?
- Part III Conclusions
- Glossary
- Appendix Research Participant Consent Form
- References
- Index
Summary
Events unfold in time in a single direction: eggs break, but we never see them un-break. Thus time, as we experience it, flows from past to future. And yet modern physics suggests that time flows from past to future only within the human mind, as the laws of physics do not require time to be unidirectional (for more details on this intriguing topic, see the popular science book by Greene, 2004). Leaving the questions about the reality of time aside, in this chapter, we focus on the way humans think and talk about time.
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- The Adaptive Bilingual MindInsights from Endangered Languages, pp. 76 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021