Do You Understand Spatial Terms Similarly?
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When an addressee is the reference object predicated by a spatial term, does a speaker’s assumption that the reference object is the addressee influence the speaker’s comprehension of spatial terms? This study examined this point by using four Japanese spatial terms. Results indicated that such an assumption biased and changed the boundary defined by the spatial terms and that this bias might be equally processed independently of the locations of the located object during the judgment on the acceptability of the spatial terms.
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