Is It In Or Is It On?:The Influence of Geometry and Location Control on Children’s Descriptions of Containment and Support Events

Richards, Lynn V. and Coventry, Kenny (2005) Is It In Or Is It On?:The Influence of Geometry and Location Control on Children’s Descriptions of Containment and Support Events. In: Functional Features in Language and Space. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 163-174. ISBN 9780199264339

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Abstract

Spatial language comprehension and production is affected not only by where objects are positioned in space but also by what those objects are and how they are interacting with each other over time. This chapter examines children's production of spatial expressions to describe scenes involving containment and support events which manipulate both the relative positions of objects in those scenes and the dynamics in the scenes. The latter manipulation was a test of whether children's production spatial expressions is influenced by what has been termed location control. The chapter shows that even the youngest age group of children (from 3–4) modified the spatial expressions they produced in response to the presence or absence of location control in the scenes described.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Social Work and Psychology (former - to 2012) Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 May 2016 16:01
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 01:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58821
DOI:	10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264339.003.0011

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