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Saying, seeing, and acting : the psychological semantics of spatial prepositions / Kenny R. Coventry, Simon C. Garrod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coventry, Kenny R.
- Series:
- Essays in cognitive psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Prepositions.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Semantics--Psychological aspects.
- Semantics.
- Space and time in language.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 184169116X
- OCLC:
- 52195505
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