Functional Features in Language and Space

Name: Functional Features in Language and Space | Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development
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Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development

Laura Carlson Emile van der Zee(Autor*in)

Oxford University Press, UK

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Erschienen am 16. Dezember 2004

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Intro
Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1 Functional Features in Language and Space
1.1 Part One-Features: Derived from Perception, Action, and Embodiment
1.2 Part Two-Function: Definitions and Influence
1.3 Part Three-Features that are Functional: Categorization, Learning, and Language
1.4 Part Four-Overview of Research in Space and Language
PART ONE-FEATURES: DERIVED FROM PERCEPTION, ACTION, AND EMBODIMENT
2 Language is Grounded in Action
2.1 Theories of Meaning
2.2 Testing the Indexical Hypothesis
2.3 The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect
2.4 Conclusions
3 The Bicycle Pedal is in Front of the Table. Why some Objects do not Fit into some Spatial Relations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Meaning as Embodied Representation
3.3 Figures and Grounds
3.4 A Study on Locative Sentences
3.5 Concluding Remarks
4 Dissociation between Verbal and Pointing Responding in Perspective Change Problems
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Experiment 1
4.3 Experiment 2
4.4 General Discussion
5 An Ecological Approach to the Interface between Language and Vision
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Schematization and Context Sensitivity
5.3 A Model of the Language-Perception Interface
5.4 Predictions
5.5 Conclusions
6 Contextual, Functional, and Geometric Components in the Semantics of Projective Terms
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A Common Model of Reference Systems and Projective Prepositions
6.3 Functional Asymmetries and Principal Directions
6.4 German Projective Terms beyond Prepositions
6.5 Conclusion
7 Verbs and Directions: The Interaction of Geometry and Function in Determining Orientation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Describing Turning Situations Using the German Verb drehen
7.3 Conceptual Semantics for the German Verb drehen
7.4 Conclusion
8 Between Space and Function: How Spatial and Functional Features Determine the Comprehension of between
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Spatial Features Representing Referent Distributions
8.3 Visual Functional Features
8.4 Linguistic Functional Features
8.5 General Functional Features
8.6 Dynamic-Kinematic Features
8.7 One Lexical Concept but more than one Corresponding Spatial Prototype
8.8 The Meaning of between in Context
PART TWO-FUNCTION: DEFINITIONS AND INFLUENCE
9 The HIPE Theory of Function
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The HIPE Theory
9.3 Causal Chains in HIPE
9.4 Applications
10 Towards a Classification of Extra-geometric Influences on the Comprehension of Spatial Prepositions
10.1 Introduction
10.2 In and On
10.3 Projective Prepositions
over, under, above, below, in front of, and behind
10.4 Other Prepositions: The Case of between
10.5 Putting Geometric and Extra-geometric Constraints Together: The Functional Geometric Framework
11 Is it in or is it on? The Influence of Geometry and Location Control on Children's Descriptions of Containment and Support Events
11.1 Introduction
11.2 In and on: The Importance of the Extra-geometric Factor of Location Control in Adult Comprehension and Production
11.3 Influences of Form and Function: The Development of Object Naming
11.4 The Development of in and on in a Child's Lexicon, and the Pre-linguistic Understanding of Containment and Support
11.5 Where's the Orange? Geometric and Functional Factors Children's Production of in and on
11.6 Summary and Conclusions
12 Defining Functional Features for Spatial Language
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Functional Bias
12.3 Classificatory Features of the Reference Objects
12.4 Principal Components Analysis of the Reference Objects
12.5 Implications and Conclusions
13 Attention in Spatial Language: Bridging Geometry and Function
13.1 Introduction
13.2 An Attentional Account of Spatial Terms
13.3 Testing the AVS Model
13.4 Bridging Geometry and Function
13.5 Object Function, Attention, and the AVS Model
13.6 Can the AVS Model Account for Functional Effects?
13.7 Discussion
14 Being Near the Ceramic, but not Near the Mug: On the Role of Construal in Spatial Language
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Object and Substance Construals and Functional Information
14.3 Construal, Functional Properties, and Spatial Language
14.4 A Note on Conventional Objects
14.5 Conclusion
15 Force and Function in the Acquisition of the Preposition in
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Force, Movement, and Function
15.3 The Role of Force in the Use of the Preposition in
15.4 Containment and the Family Resemblance C/c
15.5 The Acquisition of the Preposition in
15.6 Relative Importance of Geometric and Dynamic Factors in the Use of the Preposition in
PART THREE-FEATURES THAT ARE FUNCTIONAL: CATEGORIZATION, LEARNING, AND LANGUAGE
16 Shape: A Developmental Product
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Some Circumstantial Evidence
16.3 New Evidence on Developmental Changes in the Perception of Shape Similarity
16.4 Toward a Theory of Shape
17 Adaptation of Perceptual and Semantic Features
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Featural Approaches
17.3 Alternatives to Fixed Features
17.4 Semantic Features
17.5 Conclusion
18 Infants' Attention to and Use of Functional Properties in Categorization
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Developmental Changes in Infants' Attention to an Object's function
18.3 Developmental Changes in Infants' Attention to Appearance-Function Correlations
18.4 Developmental Changes in Infants' Ability to use Function as a Basis for Categorization
18.5 Developmental Changes in Background Knowledge Constrain Infants' attention to Appearance-Function Correlations
18.6 Conclusions
19 Developmental Constraints on the Representation of Spatial Relation Information: Evidence from Preverbal Infants
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Early Category Representations for Objects
19.3 Early Category Representations for Spatial Relations
19.4 Speculations on an Overall Course of Development for the Representation of Objects and Spatial Relations
19.5 Conclusions
20 Path Expressions in Finnish and Swedish: The Role of Constructions
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Conceptual Structure Representation
20.3 The Problem
20.4 Different Ways to Analyze the Swedish Construction
20.5 Differences in Syntactico-conceptual Linking between Finnish and Swedish
20.6 Formulation of the Swedish Construction
20.7 Conclusion
PART FOUR-THE PERVASIVENESS OF FUNCTIONAL FEATURES IN LANGUAGE AND SPACE
21 Form and Function
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Accounting for Spatial Language
21.3 Referring to Things
21.4 Naming Emphasizes Function
21.5 Referring to Spatial Relations
21.6 Parting Words
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