Volume 56 (2025), Edition 2

This article deals with the concept of mental linguistic representation, which is used in research in many disciplines in specific ways. These uses have fundamental theoretical conditions that are linked to various challenges. Firstly, these...

The decline of behaviourism in psychology marked the triumphant advance of cognitive science as an interdisciplinary, primarily empirical investigation of mental phenomena. A core concept in this multidisciplinary research program is that of a...

On the theoretical basis of a pragmalinguistic concept of representation and the discourse and speech act concept associated with the pragmatic concept of representation, the article analyses linguistic representations of health and illness in...

The Mismatch Negativity (MMN), an automatic and pre-attentive deviation detection response of the human brain, has widely been used as electrophysiological correlate of neural representations in the sensory cortices. Besides its importance for...

Talkers vary in their production of speech, requiring listeners to work out the mapping between speech and linguistic representations for a talker. To accommodate talker variability, listeners use various sources of information, such as knowledge...

Already von Helmholtz, at the end of the 19th century, was working on the question of how the brain processes spatial sensory information and makes it available to the motor system in order to interact successfully with the world. We can see where...

In psychiatry, mental representations are considered at a variety of complexity levels in a highly interdisciplinary context. Strict definitions, in which mental representation reflects the concrete external world are rarely used in the clinical...

Linguistic representations change over the course of a child’s life. Children are faced with the task of perceiving, processing and mentally representing the language that surrounds them. In language production, this dynamic is evident in...

This article examines to which extent so-called image schemas contribute to explanations of linguistic variation at the level of concrete linguistic expressions. Following a discussion of the current state of research on image schemas that draws...

To gain a better understanding of how language is mentally represented, modern linguistics provides us with a variety of empirical methods. This article focuses on two methodological approaches that are based on the observation of linguistic...

Pre-boundary lengthening (PBL), the increase in duration of segments preceding prosodic boundaries, has increasingly been studied regarding its form, but its function in the language system remains unclear. Previous research suggests that PBL is...