Shaping meanings for language: universal and language-specific in the acquisition of spatial semanti

By M. Bowerman, Seungjin Choi. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Beyond Words: Using Nonverbal Communication Data in Research to Enhance Thick Description and Interpretation (2013, background): “Nonverbal behaviors such as preferential looking have assisted some researchers (Bowerman & Choi, 2001; Choi, 2000; McDonough, Choi, & Mandler, 2003) in measuring linguistic competence of preverbal infants.”
The Development of Infants' Spatial Categories (2008, background): “…for acquiring spatial categories specific to their language (Hespos & Spelke, 2004; Mandler, 1996), whereas others propose that spatial language helps shape spatial categories, particularly those that are language specific (Bowerman, 1996; Bowerman & Choi, 2001; Gentner & Boroditsky, 2001).”
WEIRD languages have misled us, too (2010, background): “But subsequent crosslinguistic investigation has shown considerable variation in how languages express spatial concepts (Bowerman 1996; Bowerman & Choi 2001).”
Understanding Grounded Language Learning Agents (2017, background): “These effects emerge via both behavioural methods (measuring differences in how subjects learn, use or even forget concepts of different types (Bowerman & Choi, 2001; Paivio et al., 1994)) and neuroimaging (associating words of different types with spatially and structurally distinct brain regions…”
Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis (2009, background): “Past research has demonstrated that cognitive predispositions cannot be the whole story, since children learn language-specific spatial semantic categories even before age 2 (e.g., Bowerman & Choi, 2001; Casasola, 2005; Hespos & Spelke, 2004).”
'Natural Concepts' in the Spatial Topologial Domain--Adpositional Meanings in Crosslinguistic Perspective: An Exercise in Semantic Typology (2003, methodology): “This methodology has been pioneered by Melissa Bowerman in a series of studies on adpositional and verbal coding of topological spatial relations, where Venn diagrams are used to show how a language's spatial resources group scenes together (see Bowerman 1996, Bowerman & Choi 2001).”
Phonological development: toward a “radical” templatic phonology (2007, background): “…1992; Vihman 1992; McCune and Vihman 2001), with some e¤ects of the ambient language on vocal production being identifiable even before first word production (Boysson-Bardies et al. 1989; Boysson-Bardies and Vihman 1991; for comparable e¤ects in the semantic domain, see Bowerman and Choi 2001).”