Attention Unites Form and Function in Spatial Language

Attention Unites Form and Function in Spatial Language

Traditionally, the processing of spatial terms has been explained independently of more general cognitive processes, operating upon strictly geometric representations of the objects being spatially related. Challenges to this idea have focused on either process or representation. Research on process has linked spatial language with attention, but has assumed only abstract representations of the...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...

Language Form and Language Function

Language development : Form and function in emerging

The present paper was first published 25 years ago, having appeared in 1982 in The Structure of Phonological Representations, edited by H. van der Hulst and N. Smith, now out of print. Why do we consider it worthwhile to republish it? Because, as we all know, articles in books are not read as much as articles in journals, and we think that this paper contains some ideas (later expanded in Nespo...

Spatial language, visual attention, and perceptual simulation.

Spatial language descriptions, such as The bottle is over the glass, direct the attention of the hearer to particular aspects of the visual world. This paper asks how they do so, and what brain mechanisms underlie this process. In two experiments employing behavioural and eye tracking methodologies we examined the effects of spatial language on people's judgements and parsing of a visual scene....