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Peer reviewedLardiere, Donna – Language in Society, 1992
Questions Bloom's (1984) assertion that, because the Chinese do not employ counterfactual conditionals, the Chinese have not developed a labeled cognitive schema that allows them to process counterfactuals "naturally" (as opposed to the English). It is demonstrated that Arabic contains a specific counterfactual marker, yet Arabic…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, English, Interviews
