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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Bidirectional Cross-Linguistic Interference in Spatial Cognition: Behavioural Evidence from Chinese Learners of French [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study investigates how cross-linguistic differences in spatial cognition affect Chinese learners’ acquisition of French in the conflict domain of page turning, which is encoded in opposite ways by French and Mandarin.
Lin Xue +3 more
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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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On Italian spatial prepositions and measure phrases: reconciling the data with theoretical accounts
LinguisticsThe goal of this article is to offer new empirical evidence regarding the grammatical and semantic properties of Italian spatial prepositions, and to provide a theoretical account based on this evidence. We show that Italian has four grammatical types of
Ursini Francesco-Alessio, Wu Tong
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Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time [PDF]
Cognition, 2010 Alexander Kranjec, Anjan Chatterjee
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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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An account of inter-lexical polysemy in Italian prepositions: The case of per, tra, attraverso
Moderna Språk, 2023 The goal of this paper is to offer an account of an inter-lexical polysemy pattern connecting the three Italian prepositions per, tra and attraverso. It is shown via a corpus study that these prepositions can cover several related senses (i.e.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini +1 more
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A computational model of the referential semantics of projective prepositions [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper we present a framework for interpreting locative expressions containing the prepositions in front of and behind. These prepositions have different semantics in the viewer-centred and intrinsic frames of reference (Vandeloise, 1991).
Kelleher, John D., van Genabith, Josef
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