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Can 28-month-old children learn spatial prepositions robustly from pictures? Yes, when narrative input is provided [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The learning of spatial prepositions is assumed to be based on experience in space. In a slow mapping study, we investigated whether 31 German 28-month-old children could robustly learn the German spatial prepositions hinter [behind] and neben [next to ...
Katharina J. Rohlfing +2 more
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What’s “up”? Impaired Spatial Preposition Processing in Posterior Cortical Atrophy [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 This study seeks to confirm whether lesions in posterior regions of the brain involved in visuo-spatial processing are of functional relevance to the processing of words with spatial meaning.
Zubaida Shebani +6 more
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Experimental Entailments: The Case of Spatial Prepositions
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2014 In this paper we present an experimental study on native speakers’ access to lexical relations among spatial relations. Our main focus is a still poorly understood domain: the lexical relations that hold between (pairs of) directional spatial ...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Persian Spatial Prepositions: A Novel Logical Syntactical Approach to the Spatial Prepositions [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2018 The goal of this paper is to analyze the syntax of spatial preposition in Persian language. This account is pretty novel as it analyzes the Persian prepositional phrases in a unified way, which does not restrict itself to some simple spatial ...
Rajdeep Singh
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Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2016 Most teachers of English as a foreign language agree that a great number of learners use spatial prepositions inadequately and, despite the different techniques used in teaching them, most learners still consider learning the use of these prepositions ...
Assma ATHMANI
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Grounding spatial prepositions for video search [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces, 2009 Spatial language video retrieval is an important real-world problem that forms a test bed for evaluating semantic structures for natural language descriptions of motion on naturalistic data. Video search by natural language query requires that linguistic
Roy, Deb K., Tellex, Stefanie A.
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Prepositions in MSA and English [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2014 Spatial scenes are identical in the world languages. However, cultures may diverge in profiling spatial scenes (Levinson 2003). This paper selects for study the prepositions in and on in English and their Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) counterparts fi and ...
Saad Nasser Aldwayan
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The Semantics of the Preposition “alā” in the Quran: A Conceptual Metaphor Perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Traditional syntactic approaches do not offer a plausible explanation regarding the use of the Arabic preposition “alā” with abstract nouns or states.
Khan Sardaraz +2 more
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Disambiguating spatial prepositions: The case of geo‐spatial sense detection [PDF]
Transactions in GIS, 2022 AbstractSpatial relations in natural language are frequently expressed through prepositions. Thus, in the locative expressions “New York in the United States” and “the house on the river” the prepositions “in” and “on,” respectively, serve to communicate the relationships in space between the subject and object of the preposition.
Mansi A. Radke +3 more
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EMERGENCE OF URDU SPATIAL PREPOSITIONS TO ASSESS SYNTACTICAL IMPAIRMENTS IN PAKISTANI CHILDREN
The Rehabilitation Journal, 2022 Background: Urdu syntax is diverse in nature and does not relate to parameters established for English syntax in many ways. Speech-Language Pathologists’ (SLPs) assessments based on Ages of Acquisition (AoA) of spatial prepositions cannot be standardized
Faseeha Shafqat +4 more
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