'Natural Concepts' in the Spatial Topologial Domain--Adpositional Meanings in Crosslinguistic Perspective: An Exercise in Semantic Typology

By Stephen C. Levinson, Stephen C Sergio Netherlands). Language and Cognition Grou Meira, Stephen C Sergio Netherlands). Language and Cognition Grou Max Planck Institut fur Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Stephen C. Levinson
2. Nicholas Evans
3. Dedre Gentner
4. Sotaro Kita
5. Paula Rubio-Fernández
6. Marianne Gullberg
7. Morten H. Christiansen
8. Noah D. Goodman

In Language and Linguistics

1. Nicholas Evans
2. Stephen C. Levinson
3. Dedre Gentner
4. Paula Rubio-Fernández
5. Marianne Gullberg
6. Morten H. Christiansen
7. Noah D. Goodman
8. Michael C. Frank

Citations in the corpus

• Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis (2009, background): “…that differs across languages, but also their meanings, and that children become sensitive to language-specific meanings well before the age of 2 (e.g., Bowerman, 1996a, 199613; Bowerman & Pederson, 1992; Choi & Bowerman, 1991; Choi, McDonough, Bowerman, & Mandler, 1999; Levinson & Meira, 2003).”
• The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “…shows that there is no simple universal inventory, and the meanings can be very specific; for example, “in a liquid,” “astraddle,” “fixed by spiking” (Levinson & Meira 2003) – or distinguish “to (a location below)” versus “to (a location above)” versus “to (a location on a level with the…”