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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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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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 Kranjec A +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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Orphan Prepositions in French: Semantic-Syntactic Properties and Didactic Relevance [PDF]
Uirtus, 2022 This article takes a broad look at the morphological, syntactic and semantic features of orphan prepositions in French, i.e. those used without a clearly expressed regime.
Clément Koama
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Synonym‐based multi‐keyword ranked search with secure k‐NN in 6G network
IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Sixth Generation (6G) integrates the next generation communication systems such as maritime, terrestrial, and aerial to offer robust network and massive device connectivity with ultra‐low latency requirement. The cutting edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum machine learning, and millimetre enable hyper‐connectivity to ...
Deebak Bakkiam David, Fadi Al‐Turjman
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What’s “up”? Impaired Spatial Preposition Processing in Posterior Cortical Atrophy
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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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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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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