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- Title
- How space gets into language : a novel approach
- Related
- Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009) (30 September - 2 October 2009 : Sydney)
- Related
- Christensen, Wayne; Schier, Elizabeth and Sutton, John. ASCS09 : proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, p.348-355
- DOI
- 10.5096/ASCS200953
- Publisher
- North Ryde, NSW : Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Date
- 2010
- Author/Creator
- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio
- Description
- There exist several proposals regarding the relation between Cognition and Language with respect to 'Space', our understanding of objects and their changing position in the world. Some earlier approaches assume that Language conveys a radically impoverished amount of information than that processed at a visual level (Landau & Jackendoff, 1993). More recent approaches instead argue that 'spatial language' is closer in richness to 'spatial cognition', but do so by positing a blurrier boundary between the two levels of comprehension (Coventry & Garrod, 2004). In this paper I will offer an argument for a novel synthesis of these two positions, based on what counts as 'spatial cognition' and 'spatial language', and what core properties can be found across these two levels of information-processing. I will also propose that there is also a crucial difference between these two levels: that of fine-grainedness, namely the amount of information we wish to convey and to omit when we produce a sentence regarding objects and their position.
- Description
- 8 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- spatial cognition
- Subject Keyword
- spatial language
- Subject Keyword
- syntax
- Subject Keyword
- semantics
- Subject Keyword
- pragmatics
- Subject Keyword
- events
- Subject Keyword
- memory
- Resource Type
- ASCS09 : Proceedings Of The 9th Conference Of The Australasian Society For Cognitive Science
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/127049
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646529189
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010001942
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright 2009 by the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, ASCS09 : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.
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