Developing Temporal Systems

Richard M. Weist

doi:10.2478/plc-2014-0010

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Developing Temporal Systems

Psychology of Language and Communication

Volume 18 (2014): Issue 2 (August 2014)

By: Richard M. Weist

Open Access

|Aug 2014

Abstract

This paper reviews a body of research that reveals how children acquire the capacity to express the temporal location of episodes that they remember and those they anticipate for the future. The paper shows how the child’s knowledge of language structure provides a window on the conceptual development of memory processes and the capacity for conceptual time travel away from the conversational context of the speech act.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2083-8506 | Journal ISSN: 1234-2238

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Language: English

Page range: 126 - 142

Published on: Aug 28, 2014

Published by: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw

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Keywords:

episodic future thinking,

tense,

aspect,

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