Functional Features in Language and Space
Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development
Published on 16. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-19-926433-9 (ISBN)
Description
The notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together different definitions, insights and research related to defining these notions from such diverse areas as language, perception, categorization and development. Each of the contributors in this book explicitly defines the notion of 'function', 'feature' or 'functional feature' within their own theoretical framework, presents research in which such a notion plays a pivotal role, and discusses the contribution of functional features in relation to their insights in a particular area of cognition. As such, this book not only presents new developments devoted to defining 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' in several sub-disciplines of cognitive science, but also offers a focused account of how these notions operate within the cognitive interface linking language and spatial representation. All book chapters are accessible for the interested novice, and offer the specialized researcher new empirical and theoretical insights into defining function, both with respect to the language and space interface and across cognition. The introduction to the book presents the reader with the main issues and viewpoints that are discussed in more detail in each of the book chapters.
Reviews / Votes
The quality of all papers is consistently high...already the book...is cited and referred to frequently in related work. ...a valuable source for insights with respect to issues around structure and function, language, and space. * Linguist List 16.2207 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926433-9 (9780199264339)
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Laura Carlson | Emile van der Zee
Functional Features in Language and Space
Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development
Book
12/2004
Oxford University Press
€115.50
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Persons
Laura Carlson is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include journal articles published in Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human, Perception and Performance,Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition and Journal of Memory and Language.
Emile van der Zee is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. His publications include Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information (2000, with Urpo Nikanne), and Representing Direction in Language and Space (2003, with Jon Slack) both published by Oxford University Press.
Emile van der Zee is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. His publications include Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information (2000, with Urpo Nikanne), and Representing Direction in Language and Space (2003, with Jon Slack) both published by Oxford University Press.
Content
1. Introducing the role of features in language and space ; 2. Shape: A developmental product ; 3. Adaptation of Perceptual and Semantic Features ; 4. Dissociation between verbal and pointing responding in perspective change problems ; 5. Developmental Constraints on the Representation of Spatial Relation Information: Evidence from Preverbal Infants ; 6. An Ecological Approach to the Interface between Language and Vision ; 7. Towards a classification of extra-geometric influences on the comprehension of spatial prepositions ; 8. The HIPE Theory of Function ; 9. Defining function for spatial language ; 10. Attention in spatial language: Bridging geometry and function ; 11. Infants' attention to and use of functional properties in categorization ; 12. Force and function in the acquisition of the preposition in ; 13. Being near the ceramic, but not near the mug: On the role of construal in spatial language ; 14. Language is Grounded in Action ; 15. The bicycle pedal is in front of the table. Why some objects do not fit into some spatial relations ; 16. Between space and function: How spatial and functional features determine the comprehension of between ; 17. Is it in or is it on? The influence of geometry and location control on children's descriptions of containment and support events. ; 18. Contextual, Functional, and Geometric Components in the Semantics of Projective Terms ; 19. Verbs and Directions: The interaction of geometry and function in determining orientation ; 20. Path expressions in Finnish and Swedish: The role of constructions ; 21. Form and Function