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Schouwstra, Marieke – Cognitive Science, 2017
Many human languages have complex grammatical machinery devoted to temporality, but very little is known about how this came about. This paper investigates how people convey temporal information when they cannot use any conventional languages they know. In a laboratory experiment, adult participants were asked to convey information about simple…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Laboratory Experiments, Adults, Oral Language