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Saying, seeing, and acting : the psychological semantics of spatial prepositions /

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects. This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical comprehen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coventry, Kenny R.
Otros Autores: Garrod, S. C. (Simon C.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, 2004.
Colección:Essays in cognitive psychology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the domain
  • Saying : spatial prepositions and lexical semantics
  • Grounding language in perception : from "saying" to "seeing and acting"
  • Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 1. The so-called topological prepositions
  • Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 2. Which way up is up? : the projective prepositions
  • Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 3. Other prepositions : proximity, coincidence and being between
  • Putting it all together
  • Cross-linguistic and developmental implications
  • Extensions, links, and conclusions
  • The functional geometric framework and embodiment.