Conference on Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition

空间语言与空间认知会议

• 批准号: 6669603
• 负责人: BARBARA LANDAU
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-05 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6669603
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; cognition; infant human (0-1 year); language; language development; meeting /conference /symposium; space perception; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a conference designed to further our understanding of how infants and children acquire and learn to use spatial language -- the language we use to talk about objects, events, and spatial relationships in the world. Spatial language and spatial cognition are fundamental to human knowledge, and therefore serve as a key domain within which to ask about how language develops from pre-linguistic foundations, and how it later comes to affect spatial thinking. Specific topics will include (a) how spatial cognition in infancy supports the acquisition of spatial language, (b) how cross-linguistic distinctions in spatial language are acquired, and (c) how, once acquired, spatial language affects spatial thought. We plan to invite scholars with interdisciplinary perspectives on these problems, including linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists who work on problems of the representation of spatial language and learning. The conference will take place at Johns Hopkins University on June 6-8, 2003, and will include a set of target talks and commentaries, which should stimulate interdisciplinary discussion. The product of the conference will be a published volume or volumes which provide interdisciplinary perspectives on questions of how spatial language is acquired, how it engages spatial cognition in infancy, and how it later affects spatial thought.

描述(由申请人提供)：我们提议召开一次会议，旨在加深我们对婴儿和儿童如何获得和学习使用空间语言的理解--空间语言是我们用来谈论世界上的物体、事件和空间关系的语言。空间语言和空间认知是人类知识的基础，因此是一个关键领域，在这个领域内，语言是如何从前语言基础发展起来的，以及它后来是如何影响空间思维的。具体的主题包括(A)婴儿期的空间认知如何支持空间语言的习得，(B)空间语言中的跨语言差异是如何获得的，以及(C)一旦习得，空间语言如何影响空间思维。我们计划邀请在这些问题上有跨学科观点的学者，包括语言学家、心理学家和计算机科学家，他们致力于空间语言和学习的表示问题。会议将于2003年6月6-8日在约翰·霍普金斯大学举行，将包括一系列目标演讲和评论，这应该会激发跨学科的讨论。会议的成果将是一本或多本已出版的卷，这些卷就空间语言是如何获得的、空间语言如何在婴儿期参与空间认知以及后来如何影响空间思维等问题提供跨学科的观点。