Functional Features in Language and Space

Linguist List 16.2207 The quality of all papers is consistently high...already the book...is cited and referred to frequently in related work. ...a valuable source for insights with respect to issues around structure and function, language, and space.

<br>Laura Carlson is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include journal articles published in Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human, Perception and Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition and Journal of Memory and Language. Emile van der Zee is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. His publications include Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information (2000, with Urpo Nikanne), and Representing Direction in Language and Space (2003, with Jon Slack) both published by Oxford University Press.<br>

1. Introducing the role of features in language and space; 2. Shape: A developmental product; 3. Adaptation of Perceptual and Semantic Features; 4. Dissociation between verbal and pointing responding in perspective change problems; 5. Developmental Constraints on the Representation of Spatial Relation Information: Evidence from Preverbal Infants; 6. An Ecological Approach to the Interface between Language and Vision; 7. Towards a classification of extra-geometric influences on the comprehension of spatial prepositions; 8. The HIPE Theory of Function; 9. Defining function for spatial language; 10. Attention in spatial language: Bridging geometry and function; 11. Infants' attention to and use of functional properties in categorization; 12. Force and function in the acquisition of the preposition in; 13. Being near the ceramic, but not near the mug: On the role of construal in spatial language; 14. Language is Grounded in Action; 15. The bicycle pedal is in front of the table. Why some objects do not fit into some spatial relations; 16. Between space and function: How spatial and functional features determine the comprehension of between; 17. Is it in or is it on? The influence of geometry and location control on children's descriptions of containment and support events; 18. Contextual, Functional, and Geometric Components in the Semantics of Projective Terms; 19. Verbs and Directions: The interaction of geometry and function in determining orientation; 20. Path expressions in Finnish and Swedish: The role of constructions; 21. Form and Function