Parents’ Spatial Language Mediates a Sex Difference in Preschoolers’ Spatial-Language Use

SPATIAL LANGUAGE AND CONVERSENESS 1 Spatial Language

Language Development and Intelligence in Preschoolers

Language Development and Intelligence in Preschoolers A.Razavi, Ph.D. S. Haghighat, Ph.D. T. Vaa’ezi Although almost all theoretical perspectives on language development maintain that a relationship of sorts exists between language and general concept of intelligence, the present research looked at this relationship among a random sample of Neyshaaboori preschoolers (4...

Spatial language: Meaning, use, and lexical choice

Accounts of spatial language aim to address both the meaning of a spatial term and its usage patterns across diverse cases, but do not always clearly distinguish these from one another. Focusing on the case of English prepositions in and on, we set out to disentangle spatial language meaning from spatial language use by comparing judgments on a series of linguistic tasks designed to tap each as...

Emergence of Language in Spatial Language Games

Prehlasujem, že na tejto práci som pracoval samostatne. I would like to thank my supervisor RNDr. Martin Takáč for stimulating discussions and valuable advice throughout my work on the thesis.

Spatial language influences memory for spatial scenes.

Does language influence recognition for spatial scenes? In Experiments 1 and 2, participants viewed ambiguous pictures, with or without spatial sentences. In a yes-no recognition task, only the spatial sentences group made more false alarms toward the center of the spatial category than in the other direction; three other comparison groups showed no such tendency. This shift toward the core of ...