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  Language comprehension is best viewed as guided experience. The linguistic input provides cues to the human brain as to how to construct experiential simulations of the state of affairs it  denotes. We show that this view of language comprehension is consistent with a range of extant evidence in a variety of fields, 
  ranging from historical linguistics to cognitive neuroscience. We furthermore discuss new evidence that directly supports the experience-based view. We argue that the prevailing amodal view of  language comprehension is unable to coherently account for this 
  evidence.
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  - family: Stanfield
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  - family: Madden
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date: 2000
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keywords: "comprehension, embodied cognition, language, mental representation, mental simulation, situation model\n"
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  - brain-img
  - cog-psy
  - evol-psy
  - hist-ling
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  - neuro-ling
  - percep-cog-psy
  - psy-ling
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title: Language comprehension as guided experience
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