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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coventry, Kenny R.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Garrod, S. C. (Simon C.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, 2004.
Series:Essays in cognitive psychology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • The functional geometric framework and embodiment.