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6 - Time

from Part I - Do Bilinguals Maintain Language-Specific Conceptualizations?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Evangelia Adamou
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
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Events unfold in time in a single direction: eggs break, but we never see them un-break. Thus time, as we experience it, flows from past to future. And yet modern physics suggests that time flows from past to future only within the human mind, as the laws of physics do not require time to be unidirectional (for more details on this intriguing topic, see the popular science book by Greene, 2004). Leaving the questions about the reality of time aside, in this chapter, we focus on the way humans think and talk about time.

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The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
Insights from Endangered Languages
, pp. 76 - 98
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Evangelia Adamou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
  • Online publication: 23 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884266.007
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  • Evangelia Adamou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884266.007
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  • Evangelia Adamou, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: The Adaptive Bilingual Mind
  • Online publication: 23 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884266.007
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