The interface between spatial cognition and language

空间认知与语言之间的接口

• 批准号: 8225229
• 负责人: Anna Papafragou
• 金额: $ 24.78万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-05 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8225229
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adult; Affect; Aphasia; Attention; Basic Science; Behavioral; Brain; Categories; Child; Cognition; Cognitive; Communication; Development; Diagnostic; Event; Exposure to; Eye; Future; Goals; Human; Intervention; Language; Language Development; Lead; Learning; Lesion; Linguistics; Location; Maps; Memory; Methods; Mind; Motion; Patients; Pattern; Perception; Population; Process; Production; Research; Semantics; Shapes; Speech; Structure; Techniques; Testing; Time; Ursidae Family; Variant; Visual; Vocabulary; bilingualism; experience; language processing; lexical; mental representation; millisecond; novel; pressure; programs; psychologic; research study; specific language impairment; syntax; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project examines the relationship between cognitive and linguistic representations of spatial events in children. Classic theories of cognitive and linguistic development assume that spatial concepts are largely universal and that spatial language (e.g. the expression of spatial locations, paths and motions) maps directly onto preexisting, shared spatial categories. More recent theories, pointing to wide cross-linguistic differences in spatial encoding, suggest that important aspects of spatial cognition may not be universal but may be shaped by exposure to the way spatial relations are encoded within a specific language. The goal of this project is to investigate the processes underlying both the processing and the acquisition of spatial vocabulary in populations speaking different languages so as to disentangle language-specific from language- independent (potentially universal) components of spatial language. The proposed plan combines cross-linguistic behavioral experiments with eye tracking methods, allowing us to examine the moment-by-moment processes underlying the assembly of spatial descriptions, as well as the processes supporting the acquisition of novel spatial terms in controlled experimental settings. This is the first time this combination of convergent methods has been used to study how linguistic and nonlinguistic representations come together in the minds of young and more experienced speakers cross-linguistically. This integrated approach views the mapping from spatial event perception to language as a dynamic process, one that unfolds along multiple time scales ranging from milliseconds (as in planning and understanding utterances) to years (as in developing the ability to speak one's native language). This basic research program will inform theories of normal language development and processing and may ultimately contribute to accounts of linguistic and conceptual development in bilingual populations and children with specific language impairments. The eye tracking techniques developed for this project can lead to interventions for children with atypical linguistic and cognitive development, and in some form serve as a diagnostic of cognitive and linguistic difficulties in patients with different types of brain lesions or aphasias. Our toolbox could also be used to inform studies of bilingualism (e.g., by investigating connections between language and mental representation).

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目研究儿童空间事件的认知和语言表征之间的关系。认知和语言发展的经典理论假设空间概念在很大程度上是普遍的，并且空间语言（例如空间位置、路径和运动的表达）直接映射到预先存在的、共享的空间类别。最近的理论指出了空间编码中广泛的跨语言差异，表明空间认知的重要方面可能不是普遍的，而是可能通过接触特定语言中空间关系的编码方式而形成。该项目的目标是研究使用不同语言的人群处理和获取空间词汇的过程，以便将特定语言与空间语言的独立于语言（可能是通用的）成分分开。所提出的计划将跨语言行为实验与眼动追踪方法结合起来，使我们能够检查空间描述组装背后的每时每刻的过程，以及支持在受控实验设置中获取新空间术语的过程。这是第一次使用这种聚合方法的组合来研究语言和非语言表征如何在年轻和经验丰富的说话者的头脑中跨语言地结合在一起。这种综合方法将空间事件感知到语言的映射视为一个动态过程，该过程沿着多个时间尺度展开，从毫秒（如计划和理解话语）到数年（如发展说母语的能力）。该基础研究计划将为正常语言发展和处理的理论提供信息，并可能最终有助于解释双语人群和有特定语言障碍的儿童的语言和概念发展。为该项目开发的眼球追踪技术可以对具有非典型语言和认知发展的儿童进行干预，并以某种形式作为不同类型脑损伤或失语症患者认知和语言困难的诊断。我们的工具箱还可以用于为双语研究提供信息（例如，通过调查语言和心理表征之间的联系）。

项目成果

The Role of Speaker Knowledge in Children's Pragmatic Inferences.

说话者知识在儿童语用推理中的作用。

• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12841
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Child development
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Papafragou,Anna;Friedberg,Carlyn;Cohen,MatthewL
• 通讯作者: Cohen,MatthewL

Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition.

• DOI: 10.1111/desc.13116
• 发表时间: 2021-05
• 期刊: Developmental science
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Ercenur Ünal;Catherine Richards;J. Trueswell;A. Papafragou

The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation in children: Evidence from linguistic omissions.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.10.002
• 发表时间: 2012-02
• 期刊: Cognition
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Bunger A;Trueswell JC;Papafragou A
• 通讯作者: Papafragou A

Motion verbs and memory for motion events.

运动动词和运动事件的记忆。

• DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2019.1685480
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Cognitive neuropsychology
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Skordos,Dimitrios;Bunger,Ann;Richards,Catherine;Selimis,Stathis;Trueswell,John;Papafragou,Anna
• 通讯作者: Papafragou,Anna

Lexical, syntactic, and semantic-geometric factors in the acquisition of motion predicates.

运动谓词习得中的词汇、句法和语义几何因素。

• DOI: 10.1037/a0036970
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Developmental psychology
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Skordos,Dimitrios;Papafragou,Anna
• 通讯作者: Papafragou,Anna