Functional Features in Language and Space
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Functional Features in Language and Space: Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development

Functional Features in Language and Space: Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development

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The notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together different definitions, insights and research related to defining these notions from such diverse areas as language, perception, categorization and development. Each of the contributors in this book explicitly defines the notion of 'function', 'feature' or 'functional feature' within their own theoretical framework, presents research in which such a notion plays a pivotal role, and discusses the contribution of functional features in relation to their insights in a particular area of cognition. As such, this book not only presents new developments devoted to defining 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' in several sub-disciplines of cognitive science, but also offers a focused account of how these notions operate within the cognitive interface linking language and spatial representation. All book chapters are accessible for the interested novice, and offer the specialized researcher new empirical and theoretical insights into defining function, both with respect to the language and space interface and across cognition. The introduction to the book presents the reader with the main issues and viewpoints that are discussed in more detail in each of the book chapters.

Table of Contents:
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199264322
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Sub Title: Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199264325
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 788 gr


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