Space, language, and cognition: New advances in acquisition research
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Henriëtte Hendriks
Abstract
In this introductory chapter to the present special issue about “Space, language and cognition: developmental perspectives”, we introduce some of the main questions that are currently debated concerning the relationships between cognitive and linguistic representations in the domain of space. This collection of papers addresses these questions by bringing together contributions from different disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches. All papers start out with the assumption that spatial cognition is not indifferent to spatial language and aim at specifying how the two might be best related by examining the development of spatial representations in children and adults through language use and acquisition.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Space, language, and cognition: New advances in acquisition research
- Typological constraints on the acquisition of spatial language in French and English
- Children's verbalizations of motion events in German
- What gestures reveal about how semantic distinctions develop in Dutch children's placement verbs
- Changes in encoding of path of motion in a first language during acquisition of a second language
- I'm fed up with Marmite—I'm moving on to Vegemite—What happens to the development of spatial language after the very first years?
- On the use of posture verbs by French-speaking learners of Dutch: A corpus-based study
- Book reviews
Articles in the same Issue
- Space, language, and cognition: New advances in acquisition research
- Typological constraints on the acquisition of spatial language in French and English
- Children's verbalizations of motion events in German
- What gestures reveal about how semantic distinctions develop in Dutch children's placement verbs
- Changes in encoding of path of motion in a first language during acquisition of a second language
- I'm fed up with Marmite—I'm moving on to Vegemite—What happens to the development of spatial language after the very first years?
- On the use of posture verbs by French-speaking learners of Dutch: A corpus-based study
- Book reviews
