No metaphorical timeline in gesture and cognition among Yucatec Mayas

In numerous languages, space provides a productive domain for the expression of time. This paper examines how time-to-space mapping is realized in Yucatec Maya. At the linguistic level, Yucatec Maya has numerous resources to express deictic time, whereas expression of sequential time is highly const...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Olivier eLe Guen, Lorena Ildefonsa Pool Balam
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Subjects:	Cognition space time Gesture metaphor Yucatec Maya
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00271/full