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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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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On the syntax and semantics of Spanish spatial prepositions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 The goal of this paper is to offer a novel account on the Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Spatial Prepositions. This account is novel in at least three aspects.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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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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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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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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Reflections on the Functional Characterization of Spatial Prepositions [PDF]
Corela, 2010 In his research on spatial prepositions, Vandeloise raised the basic question of whether they are really spatial in nature. He clearly established the importance—if not the predominance—of functional considerations.
Ronald W. Langacker
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