Conference on Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出了一个会议，旨在进一步了解婴儿和儿童如何获得和学习使用空间语言-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，可以探讨语言是如何从前语言基础发展起来的，以及它后来如何影响空间思维。具体的主题将包括：（a）婴儿期的空间认知如何支持空间语言的习得，（B）空间语言的跨语言差异是如何获得的，以及（c）一旦获得，空间语言如何影响空间思维。我们计划邀请对这些问题具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征问题。会议将于2003年6月6日至8日在约翰霍普金斯大学举行，将包括一系列有针对性的演讲和评论，这将促进跨学科的讨论。会议的产品将是一本或多本出版的书籍，它们提供了关于空间语言如何获得，如何在婴儿期参与空间认知以及如何影响空间思维等问题的跨学科观点。

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.