This project investigates the semantics
of spatial relations like in, on and over. The papers
below report various experiments which examine the influence of functional
geometry in people's judgments of such spatial relations.
Collaborators
Kenny Coventry
Tony Sanford
Publications --TOP
Coventry, K.R. & Garrod, S. (2004) Saying,
Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions.
Psychology Press, Hove.
Garrod,
S., Ferrier, G.& Campbell, S. (1999)
In and On: Investigating the functional geometry of spatial prepositions.
Cognition,
72,
167-189.
Coventry, K.R., Carmichael, R.
& Garrod, S.C. (1994) Spatial prepositions, Object specific function
and Task requirements. Journal of Semantics,
11(4), 289-311.
Garrod,S. and Sanford,A.J. (1988)
Discouse models as interfaces between language and the spatial world. Journal
of Semantics, 6, 147-160.